Torture-related death of citizen sparks widespread human rights outrage in Aden

ADEN, June 25 (YPA) – The death of 27-year-old Samir Mohammed Qahtan, who was tortured to death in a prison run by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions in Aden in southern Yemen, sparked widespread human rights condemnation.

Human rights sources accused leader of the “Security Belt Forces” of killing Qahtan, who was abducted last February from Al-Kathiri Street in Al-Mansoura and thrown into the Nasr Camp prison in the Arish area without any criminal charges being brought against him.

The sources confirmed that Qahtan was subjected to brutal torture throughout his detention and was denied visits and contact with his family. He was transferred to Abboud Hospital in a state of clinical death last week, and his death was announced on June 19.

Qahtan’s body is still in the morgue at Al-Jumhuriya Hospital, while his family demands that the cause of death be revealed.

Human rights activists and international organizations have called for urgent intervention to investigate the fate of thousands of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons, as well as the torture crimes that have claimed the lives of hundreds of them in secret prisons.

It’s worth noting that STC factions prevented a protest called by the Ja’adna tribe in Abyan last week to demand information about the fate of detainees.

YPA