Ministry of Human Rights Organizes a Press Conference on Death Prisons in Occupied Areas

The Ministry of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Administration, on Wednesday held a press conference entitled “Death detainees in occupied areas the brutality of the act and the heinousness of the crime.”

At the press conference, Human Rights Minister Ali Hussein Al-Dailami stressed the importance of the conference to identify the scale of crimes and violations committed by the aggression coalition and its tools against the Yemeni people, including civilians, women and children.

He reviewed violations, crimes, abductions and arrests committed by the aggression coalition, its instruments and the forces of invasion and occupation in the occupied governorates on false and unrelated charges of unrelated fact, in those provinces they set up many secret prisons to inflict the most severe forms of psychological, verbal and physical torture on abducted and forcibly detained persons without deterrence.

He stressed that the Ministry placed the citizens of the occupied governorates on its list of priorities through solidarity with them, identifying their situation and monitoring violations and crimes against them.

The statistics and information spoken and highlighted by the Ministry of Human Rights were documented information and testimony, and many crimes and violations remained confidential and discreet from the forces and tools of the invasion.

Al-Dailami stated that the Ministry has a list of secret prisons and new prisons that were not mentioned in international and international reports, as there are 58 prisons that have been identified, some of which were secret and some of which were known, and there are dozens of houses in Taiz Governorate that were used as prisons, and there are still secret prisons managed by Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and its locations are not known yet.. indicating that the Ministry has information revealing the existence of a secret cemetery in Lahj Governorate called Al-Haswah Cemetery, in which those who were liquidated or killed by torture are buried.

The total number of forcibly disappeared persons since 2015 was 5,000, 433, 53 abducted, detained and 8 killed as a result of torture, in a preliminary statistical report, according to the Ministry’s findings, the reports issued by international and local organizations have been monitored and documented. There are still cases where the families of the disappeared and detained have not been able to report them for fear of the mercenaries of aggression and the States of aggression liquidating their families.

The Minister of Human Rights pointed out that the Coalition had committed more than 800 crimes against children and women on Yemen’s west coast, including abduction and rape.

For his part, the Minister of Local Administration, Ali Ben Ali Al-Qaisi, explained that the crimes against citizens in the occupied areas are only a simple thing to do with the abuses and atrocities occurring there.

He pointed out that the aggression was directed against the inhabitants of those governorates, their militias and terrorist instruments, which were not subject to any law or custom and did not possess any values or morals.

According to Minister Al-Qaisi, the practices of the Emiratis and the Saudis against prisoners, detainees and abductees, and their practices of tyranny and brutality, have proven to deprive them of all ethics and values because they were educated in the arms of Jews and Christians.

He pointed out that the large number of prisons and detention facilities created by the UAE-Saudi occupation and their militias, which are deployed in all districts and occupied areas outside the scope of the law and without any control, caused the death of many Yemeni citizens as a result of torture, brutal practices and denial of the most basic rights.

The Minister of Local Administration pointed out that the United Nations and international organizations had become partners of aggression forces and mercenaries in their crimes and violations against the Yemeni people, as a result of their silence over the abductions, looting, murder and torture of citizens and travellers travelling through the occupied areas.

He stressed that all these crimes and violations make the people of the occupied governorates and Yemenis in general face a great responsibility to unite their ranks to defeat the invading forces and their criminal tools and rid the Yemeni people of their evils.

Minister Al-Qaisi reiterated Mahdi Al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council, ‘s statement regarding addressing aggression as a first priority in order to ensure security and stability for all the nation.

While the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Rights, Ali Tayseer, and the Director of the Human Rights Office in Dhamar Governorate, Muhammad Al-Maori, to the violations, crimes, arrests, abductions, enforced disappearances, looting of their property and other crimes, often amounting to murder, to citizens from various governorates travelling or doing business in the occupied governorates.

They deplored the failure of international and international organizations to play their role in putting an end to violations and crimes committed by the aggression coalition, its mercenaries and the forces of invasion and occupation.

In turn, the Minister’s Adviser Hamid Al Rafiq reviewed the violations against citizens in the occupied governorates, the inhumane and immoral treatment of citizens residing in those governorates, as well as workers in the areas of occupation and travellers travelling through those areas.

At the press conference, a number of families and relatives of the detainees were heard and forcibly disappeared about the conditions of arrest of their relatives and the malicious charges against them and the torture and suffering to which they were subjected in the prisons.

Call upon the world’s freedom and various local and international organizations to play their part in pressuring the States of aggression and their tools to release all detainees, abductees and disappeared persons and to hand over the bodies of those who have been liquidated and killed by torture to their families.

The conference was attended by a number of agents and assistant agents of the Ministry of Local Administration, representatives of some organizations and the media.