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Houthi prisons.. terrorist cellars and complex crimes against the abductees who are awaiting the implementation of justice

الإثنين 22 مايو 2023 الساعة 04 مساءً / alislah-ye.net – Exclusive

 

The Houthi militia has mastered the practice of complex terrorism and crime against Yemenis in the areas it has run since the coup against the state, including the prisons it builds from time to time to torture the abductees and imprison them in solitary cellars full of innocent abductees, and Nazi violations are practiced against them with unparalleled dynastic hatred and priestly fanaticism.

In addition to its violations, the Houthi militia continued to establish secret prisons in the areas it controls, especially in the capital, Sana'a, to hide its complex crimes against those who were kidnapped and forcibly disappeared. Where the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia deliberately kidnaps its opponents, who differ with it in opinion, hides them in its prisons, and systemized tortures them.

Abductions have become one of the key tasks for every Houthi dynasty leader who does not hesitate to occupy any house and turn it into a secret prison, including homes owned by military leaders or government service buildings until Sana’a has become as if it is almost suffocating from the large number of secret prisons that are being built in the streets and residential buildings.

The militia was not convinced of this but rather converted some residential buildings into prisons, the last of which was the prison that was revealed by human rights reports on Al-Ziraa Street in the center of the capital, Sana'a, where the militia established a prison in a residential building, specifically on the first floor and basement in the same building that is considered the headquarters of an organization works in the humanitarian field and has resorted to such an act in order to camouflage the prison that has been created

Statistics about Houthi prisons:

The number of Houthi prisons that were recently established illegally increased until, according to the SAM Organization for Human Rights, their number reached about 600 prisons affiliated with the Houthi militia in the areas it has run since the coup, after the number of these prisons in September 2017 was more than one hundred and ninety Houthi prisons and detention centers, most of them illegal according to the organization itself.

The statistics prepared by the SAM organization reveal that the number of Houthi prisons that have been established in the areas it controls has increased by about 60% over the past years, and this in itself confirms the increasing campaign of abductions that the Houthi militia is carrying out against civilians with the aim of using them in the exchange of its military prisoners who have been captured on the battlefields by the National Army forces, as well as the expansion of campaigns of violations carried out against its civilian opponents.

The Capital Center for Human Rights had previously revealed the number of prisons affiliated with the Houthi militia in the capital, Sana'a only, which amounted to 107 prisons distributed in the nine directorates of the capital, Sana'a, including 25 secret prisons and 4 private prisons, in which the most heinous forms of torture and humiliation are practiced against the abducted and the forcibly disappeared in their cellars

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Considering the human rights violations in Yemen, the Houthi militia comes at the forefront of the list of these violations in all local and international human rights reports and statements, especially with the increase in Houthi prisons day after day, as the terrorist militia used to abduct citizens who oppose its policy and orders and keep them in mostly secret prisons. Where these citizens are subjected to the worst types of physical and psychological torture.

 

Map of Houthi prisons in Sana'a:

Human rights reports revealed new Houthi names involved in running secret prisons, including Abdul Basit al-Hadi, who impersonated the Sana'a governorate, and the director of his office, called Zakaria Al-Fasih, nicknamed Abu Zakaria.

According to reports, the prisons run by the so-called al-Hadi and the director of his office called Abu Zakaria are distributed in the neighborhoods of Bayt Bawss, Artel, Dar Silm, and Hizyaz. These neighborhoods have become crowded with hundreds of abductees and forcibly disappeared persons, where they are subjected to the most heinous violations, in addition to the transformation of these neighborhoods into hiding places for opponents of the Houthi militia or those who criticize it in its areas of control.

According to the sources, the first prison is located in a villa belonging to the former Minister of Defense in the legitimate government, Lieutenant General Muhammad Ali al-Maqdashi, near the Bayt Bawss police station, while the second prison is located in the Cleaning and Improvement Fund building, next to the Assiwar Al-Abyadh wedding hall, and the third prison is located next to Natco Company in front of Hospital 48 in the Hizyaz area, the fourth prison is located next to the Al-Hindwana market in the Dar Silm area, and the fifth prison is located in the house of a former military commander in the Artel area.

Observers believe that the establishment of secret prisons by the terrorist Houthi militia in various neighborhoods and residential communities in Sana'a and other areas it administers is a clear expression of the manner in which the Iranian militia controls the capital, Sana'a, noting that this comes within the framework of the militia's attempt to further strangle the capital. Sana'a and the restrictions on citizens more broadly.

 

Al-Murtada family runs prisons and tortures the abducted:

At the top of the Houthi families that run a number of prisons in the capital, Sana'a, is the Bayt Al-Murtada family, which runs a number of prisons and practices various forms of torture and violations against the abducted and detained, according to what was revealed by the journalists who were recently released from the prisons of the Houthi militia in an exchange deal. prisoners that took place last month.

The journalist who was released from the prisons of the Houthi militia, Abd al-Khaliq Omran, revealed the practice of the Houthi leader Abd al-Qadir al-Murtada personally torturing the abductees and prisoners, indicating that the al-Murtada family controls the Central Security Camp prison and deals with it as a private farm.

According to the journalist Omran, the Al-Murtada family invests in prisons and also practices torture against the abductees, detainees and prisoners, in addition to the fact that Majd Aldiyn al-Murtada and his third brother, nicknamed Abu Shihab, who are the brothers of Abdul Qadir al-Murtada looted the money that is transferred for the benefit of the abducted and detained from their families and extorted them in various ways.

The journalist, Abdul-Khaliq, described the Houthi leader, Abdul-Qader al-Murtada, who is infected with sadism, because of the systemized torture he practices against prisoners and detainees, citing the torture that his colleague Tawfiq al-Mansouri was subjected to, which led to his skull being slashed by al-Murtada himself, where they were forcibly disappeared by the so-called al-Murtada for about nine months before they left.

In turn, journalist Tawfiq al-Mansouri called on the international community to include al-Murtada in the list of terrorism and bring him to trial for the crimes he committed against the abducted journalists during the past eight years, describing him as the Bastille's group for torturing the abducted.

 

Crimes against humanity:

The Yemeni government has considered the practices carried out by the Houthi militia as crimes against humanity, stressing that the militia will not stop committing violations except by defeating it militarily and economically and besieging it internationally, according to Majid Fadhayel, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Rights in the legitimate government, head of the government team in the negotiations of prisoners and detainees.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Rights stressed that the Houthi secret prisons and the torture and disappearance that takes place in them are crimes against humanity committed by the Houthi militia against the Yemenis, adding that this is not surprising for these militias that have abducted many people in their prisons and detention centers.

He called on the international community to raise its voice, to denounce the crimes of the Houthi militia, and put more pressure on them to stop these violations, stressing that "the international silence encourages them to commit more of these violations." He also demanded the need to "pressure the Houthi militia to allow visits to all prisoners, even those forcibly disappeared in the detention facilities of the so-called security and intelligence services, headed by the prominent leader, Muhammad Qahtan."

 

The practice of enforced disappearance:

With the increase in the number of Houthi prisons in the areas it administers, specifically in the capital, Sana'a, observers have warned of the dangers facing the abductees due to brutal torture and confinement in places that lack the minimum humane standards for the treatment of prisoners and abductees.

According to a government official, the Houthi militia practices its racist, sectarian approach and ethnic superiority in its worst forms and works to force the abducted and detained to glorify the leader of their militia and speak in front of cameras in contradiction with their convictions, according to the director of the Human Rights Office in the capital Sana'a, Fahmy al-Zubairi.

While the SAM Organization for Human Rights considered the Houthi secret prisons a serious violation of human rights, because their operations are often carried out without supervision, and all prisoners' and human rights alike are violated. Likewise, these illegal prisons constitute, in their entirety, a crime of enforced disappearance and torture, and have repercussions that harm the families and families of the prisoners and society as a whole, in the absence of clear mechanisms to put pressure on the Houthi militia locally and externally.

 

Torture to death:

The Houthi militia has turned these prisons into cells for torture and the practice of terrorism against the abductees, as dozens of abductees died in the militia's prisons under torture, in addition to the practice of enforced disappearance of thousands of Yemenis since its coup against the state in September 2014.

A human rights report issued by the Erada Organization Against Torture documented the death of 7 civilian abductees during the past year under torture in the prisons of the Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militia. It also documented various torture crimes amounting to 120 abductees and forcibly disappeared persons in the militia's prisons.

 

Get rich at the expense of the abductees:

The prisons of the Houthi militia have collected all the disadvantages of prisons and jailers. Under the Houthi militia, the jailers have turned into rich people and real estate dealers, and prisons have become the fastest way to gain and get rich quickly.

According to human rights reports, many Houthi jailers have turned into black market dealers in extorting the families of the abductees and made a lot of money behind the false promises and false aspirations that these criminals use while they are practicing fraud and fraud with all boldness and insolence, and on top of that they do not allow them to receive the sums of their families, but rather it is placed in the hands of the jailer to steal it with all selfishness and vulgarity.

Human rights reports reveal that Murad Hanin, who is the deputy leader of the Houthi leader, al-Murtada, is the first accused of managing the money looted from Houthi prisons. Released journalists say that the remittances that arrive from the families reach al-Murtada's, while the abducted person does not know that his transfer has arrived until after two weeks or a month, and he finds only half of it.

Human rights activists estimated that what the Houthis could loot from the kidnapped's money, which amounts to 3 thousand in the central prison in Sana'a, is 90 million per month from one prison. Note that this amount is the result of calculating the taking of only 1,000 riyals from each abductee, which indicates that one of the reasons for the expansion of the kidnapping of civilians during the past years in Sana'a is the revenue that the militia reaps from the transfers of the abductees' families.

Finally, it is no longer possible to remain silent about this complex crime, and the world must hear and listen to the testimonies of the victims, and the Ministry of Human Rights must prepare a file on these Houthi crimes, and activate them through human rights organizations because the Houthi prisons and their jailers are the criminal hands and the heavy stick that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and his cohorts use to oppress the abductees and break the will of the opponents of their project.

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