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Human Rights Statistics: More than 800 abductees are held in secret Brotherhood prisons in Shabwa

English - Wednesday 03 November 2021 الساعة 07:25 pm

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Aden, NewsYemen:

Human rights reports have documented hundreds of violations and human crimes committed by the Brotherhood militia in Shabwa Governorate, southeast of Yemen.

Humanitarian violations ranged from murder, kidnapping, enforced disappearance, and torture in secret prisons, in addition to assaulting and looting public and private property.

A human rights report documented that the Brotherhood militia committed 68 cases of killing and wounding civilians, 36 cases of kidnapping of children under the age of eighteen, and 20 cases of kidnapping and torture of 20 journalists, in addition to the kidnapping of more than 800 people, including 116 members of the Shabwani Elite.

The Brotherhood’s violations included government sector employees, as the report documented the exclusion of 134 employees from their jobs in the civil and security sectors in Shabwa, and their replacement with Brotherhood members.

The Brotherhood’s militia hides the kidnapped people in secret prisons that it created in Ataq and other areas after taking control of the governorate, and some of them have been in prison for years, while the authority of Governor Muhammad Salih Adyo refuses to refer their files to the prosecution and courts in accordance with the law, or to release them.