September Net – Hamada Almekhlafi

During the last five years, the abductees in the prisons run by Houthi militia have been exposing to horrific torture, abuses and mistreatment.

Human rights organizations and activists revealed that there are large number of Abductees , most of whom are academics, journalists and students, are exposed to psychological and physical torture in prisons run by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in the capital Sana’a.

In the past month, the Houthi militia deprive the detainees from being visited by their  families.

“Houthi militia deprive our abducted sons from food, medicine and even clothes,” said a mother, who was prevented from seeing her son in Houthis’ jails.

Abductees’ Mothers Association (AMA) revealed that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels deprive the detainees inside the Political Security’s prison in Sana’a from being visited by their families.

Due to not being exposed to sun light for months, some of the abductees started to be infected with skin diseases, AMA stated.

The Association appealed to human rights activists as well human rights organizations to step in and press on the militia to release the abductees.

Sam Organization for Rights and Liberties confirmed that the detainees are mistreated and deprived from having healthy food, clean water and medicines, emphasizing that some of the detainees are inflicted of skin diseases due to crowd and deprival of water and cleaning.

A lawyer, Abdul-Majeed Sabrah, told Sam Organization for Rights and Liberties that the court’s judges did not respond to the complaints of the abductees. Therefore, the abductees directed appeals to the Yemeni people and all human rights activists to stand by them and save them from the Houthi brutality.

Mr. Sabrah posted on his Facebook page, the abductees have been subjected to beatings and other physical abuses since their detentions. He said they are held in underground cells and deprived of food and medicine.

Earlier this week, a local human rights organization, called on national and international organizations to visit the Houthi prisons and meet the abductees as to voice their suffering and play a role in giving the abductees their basic and simple rights.

Abducted Journalists

Yemeni Abducted Journalist in Houthi Militia’s  Run Prisons in Sana’a

Houthi militia is stepping up its violations against journalists in Yemen, in an attempt to stop them from exposing, reporting its brutal atrocities and abuses against civilians.

Houthi militia has reserved the case of 36 abducted journalists and reporters whom the rebels are trying in the capital Sana’a.

The Geneva-based (Sam) Organization for Rights and Liberties said, the court judge had reserved the case for the verdict, after refusing to allow the abductees’ defense to deliver their submissions on the criminal report as well as the documents deliver to the court that allegedly prove the involvement of the abductees in malicious charges from the prosecution.

“During the last four years of their illegal detention, those who hold them ( Houthi militia) have broken all international conventions and norms on the treatment of prisoners”, the International Federation of Journalists said earlier in a press release.

A statement issued by Mothers of Abductees said the Iran-backed Houthi militia has prevented families and relatives of the imprisoned journalists in its detention centers in Sana’a from visiting them and providing them with medicines and food over the past couple of days.

The Yemeni media men organization (SADA) condemned the Houthi militia’s move given that it is in violation of all International laws and human rights conventions.

The stark and gross violations committed by Houthi militia against Yemeni journalists have been worst  ever during entire history of Yemen press, creating hazardous  environment for journalists to work in and subjecting them to all types of abuses.

Due to the Houthi militia’s repressive practices against Media and Press, Yemen has ranked 170 among countries where freedom of press is mostly being violated, according to Reporters with Border annually report. Yemen has also been one of the worst states in terms of violations perpetrated against journalists and media people.