News – Yemen: The Minister of Information in the Salvation government, Daif Allah Al-Shami, commented on a picture of a number of young men in the occupied governorates with folded hands and tied to an electricity pole in a very humiliating manner.

He said that "the practices of insulting human dignity practiced by the tools of the Saudi-Emirati aggression and occupation against the Yemeni people in the occupied governorates are unacceptable and cannot be accepted by those who possess an ounce of pride, dignity and belonging to Yemen."

"These actions proved beyond any doubt the real goals of the aggression and its tools, which it seeks to implement in all Yemeni regions if it is able to do so," he added. "Had it not been for the great sacrifices and confronting the occupiers militarily, politically, economically and socially with awareness and insight in a massive popular revolution and a sincere revolutionary leadership, our situation would have been worse than the situation in the occupied territories."

In addition to the support forces, the security belt, and the special forces camp in the city, individual and group prisons, and the transformation of the Intelligence, Political and National Security Prison in Aden into secret prisons belonging to the militias of the Southern Transitional Council affiliated to the Emirates, with the exception of the Central Prison in Aden, which is still subject to the Public Prosecution in Aden.

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The forms of torture practiced by the occupation forces in the secret prisons of the UAE vary between torture with electric sticks, hanging on the prison wall, pouring cold water on detainees, stripping them and holding their breath, severe beatings, sleep deprivation, and preventing the detainee from visiting family.

The scope of secret prisons has expanded throughout the occupied governorates from the western coast to Al-Mahrah and the archipelago of Socotra Island, to reflect the brutality of the Saudi and Emirati regimes  and reveal the policy of subjugating society to the authorities with oppression and abuse.

The crimes in secret prisons in the southern governorates, the number of secret prisons criminalized by international humanitarian law increased from 26 secret prisons at the end of 2019 to 42 by the end of last month. Human rights sources in those governorates estimated that the number of detainees in them more than 2500.

Despite the exposure of many of the crimes committed in the secret prisons run by the Emirates and its militias in the southern governorates during the period 2016-2019, the Saudi occupier proceeded with the same approach in establishing many secret prisons. Riyadh gave its militias from the Islah Party in Shabwa and Wadi Hadramout and al-Qaeda in Abyan the green light to establish more prisons.