News - Yemen: The Ministry of Human Rights held a meeting on its report entitled "The Prisoners' Issue, Crimes and Violations."

Member of the Supreme Political Council Sultan Al-Sami'i congratulated the liberated prisoners from enemy and mercenary prisons for their release and their safe return to the land of Yemen.

"When we received the prisoners coming from Khamis Mushayt, we found many of them handicapped, and their appearance suggested that they had come from cellars in which they had not seen the sun," he said.

He stressed that the violations to which the prisoners were subjected are not from the morals and principles of the Islamic religion, the authentic Arab customs and traditions, and human values.

Al-Sami'i explained that the prisoners who were imprisoned in Sana'a were honored, they were dealt with with all humanity and according to Islamic morals, customs, traditions and authentic Yemeni customs.

"Mahmoud Al-Subaihi, upon his arrival in Aden, said it in one letter: ‘We were really in the hospitality of Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi. We lived in a respectable villa and were fed from the best food, with a television set and open channels. We have phones to communicate with our families,' and this came due to the good treatment that the prisoners receive in Sana'a," he added.

He expressed regret over what the prisoners returning to Sana'a from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere were subjected to, which reflects the inhuman treatment of them. He indicated that there are many abductees, detainees, and prisoners of war with the Saudi enemy and mercenaries who were tortured, and some of them were brutally killed.

Al-Sami'i touched on the arrival of 104 immigrant and worker detainees in Saudi Arabia, who were used by the Saudi regime in the media to release them without any compensation, as if they were prisoners, however, they were nothing but workers who were arbitrarily arrested on malicious charges as well and deported unjustly and aggressively.

For his part, Deputy Prime Minister for National Vision Affairs Mahmoud Al-Junaid stressed the importance of the Ministry of Human Rights' report, "The Prisoners' Issue, Crimes and Violations", and the principles and rights that prisoners should enjoy and motivate everyone to adhere to them according to faith identity and religious affiliation.

He pointed to the pride in the values practiced by the authorities concerned with the prisoners, and said, "The whole world knows that we adhere more to the principles and values concerned with the prisoners, which are at the core of our Islamic religion."

Al-Junaid stressed that the Saudi side deals with the opposite of those rights and principles of the prisoner, pointing out in this regard to the arrest and horrific practices against the detainees.

For his part, Minister of Human Rights Ali Hussein Al-Dailami explained that the draft report on the Prisoners' Issue dealt with the rights of prisoners that are being suspended and the rights of prisoners are ignored by UN and international organizations.

He stated that ignoring the rights of prisoners has serious negative repercussions, making the aggressive party commit the most heinous crimes, believing that it is thus far from being held accountable.

Minister Al-Dailami indicated that as a result of the failure of the United Nations and its various bodies and organizations, as well as international organizations, to assume their role and responsibility towards the prisoners, the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries persisted and committed the most heinous crimes of torture and killing against prisoners and detainees. They documented them in audio and video and presented them without fear, in clear defiance of international conventions and covenants.

He touched on the procedures and complexities that the Red Cross takes with regard to the prisoners and what they are exposed to, which makes these procedures a factor of restriction on their work.

"The time has come for many organizations to introduce some articles that guarantee effective protection for prisoners and civilians, and for rights in general," he said.

He stressed that the statutes of the Red Cross, the High Commissioner and many United Nations agencies need to be carefully reviewed to ensure the implementation of their obligations and the protection of rights.

The Minister of Human Rights considered that the international mechanisms are broken and have not been implemented in reality, and the role of international organizations has become the role of mediator only. “Their real role, meanwhile, is to stop violations and crimes against prisoners and civilians and move within the correct framework by applying international conventions and covenants,” he added.

He called on the Red Cross and the High Commissioner to ease the complications in registering cases or complaints that reach them by the Ministry, and to find an appropriate mechanism for that. 

He indicated that visits were organized by the Ministry of Human Rights to the whereabouts of the prisoners in Sana'a, and the upscale humane and ethical treatment towards the prisoners was noted.

In turn, the head of the Executive Unit of the National Vision at the Ministry of Human Rights, Aref Al-Amiri, explained that the Unit, and within its programs, issued national and specialized reports, including the prisoners' report. It coincided with the release of prisoners liberated from the prisons of aggression to reveal the crimes and brutal violations that the prisoners were subjected to and the inhumane treatment with them.

He indicated that the report team worked to document the crimes with the aim of holding the perpetrators accountable as a violation of international conventions that preserve the rights of prisoners in light of the international disregard for those rights and in order to hold the countries involved in aggression and mercenaries responsible for any threat to the lives of prisoners and the safety of those still in prisons.

Al-Amiri pointed out that the report included those who were kidnapped because of travel, surname or sect, and were subjected to torture, humiliation and cruel treatment.

Meanwhile, the freed prisoner, Samira Marsh, reviewed the repercussions of her kidnapping and how she was arrested without any reasons. She confirmed that the charges they tried to fabricate are false and baseless and have no connection to reality.

She touched on the methods of torture she was subjected to over a period of five years, and the prevention of her even contacting her family and relatives.

She appreciated the concern of the Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi and his relentless endeavor to get her out of the prisons of Marib, and her appreciation to the Yemeni People who received her, raised her spirits, and made her forget the years of torture and persecution in the coalition prisons.

The prisoner exchange process is part of an exchange deal signed in Switzerland on March 20, which included 706 prisoners and detainees in the prisons of the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries.

On Friday, a total of 72 prisoners were sent from Sana’a airport to Aden airport on board two flights, and 250 of the Armed Forces captives on two flights from Aden to Sana’a.

On Saturday, the second day of the exchange process, five planes arrived, successively, coming from Saudi Arabia and occupied Mocha, carrying 350 prisoners of the Yemeni armed forces, including 250 prisoners who were in Saudi prisons, and in return, Sana’a released 15 Saudi prisoners and Sudanese.

The third phase of the prisoner exchange process began, on Sunday, between Sana’a and Marib, including 105 prisoners and abductees in the prisons of the Islah Party militia.

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