Human rights organization: International silence on Houthi violations increased their crimes against civilians
English - Sunday 16 July 2023 الساعة 07:24 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, liquidated a forcibly disappeared person inside one of its prisons in Sana'a, about two months after he was kidnapped.
Witnesses for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, stated, in a statement issued by it, that it had received a communication from the families of the young victim, “Ahmed Ali Saleh Razeeq,” a resident of the Bani Hashish district in the outskirts of Sana’a, stating that he had died two months after his abduction and transfer to a secret prison run by Houthi militia.
According to the parents' report: "The Houthi militia informed them of the death of their son Ahmed - 35 years old - in Hospital 48, and demanded that they come to take his body and bury him directly," indicating that the militias prevented his family from visiting him or communicating with him in any way since the day he was kidnapped on May 10 from a farm he was guarding in Beit Al-Nukhaif in the village of Wadi Al-Sir in the Bani Hashish district of the Sana'a governorate.
The statement of the Witnesses Organization indicated that "this incident is not the first in which the death of a kidnapped person in the prisons of the Houthi group has been announced due to torture and violations, as it was preceded by hundreds of cases since the beginning of the war in Yemen, which seriously and disturbingly reflects the brutality pursued by the Houthi group."
Witnesses called for the speedy opening of an urgent investigation into the practices of the Houthi group towards the individuals it is holding and treating in a brutal manner. It is inconsistent with divine laws and man-made laws; All customs and traditions.
The human rights organization criticized the continued unjustified international silence towards these crimes, explaining that the continued silence means more crimes and violations against innocent civilians.
