Clashes erupted between armed groups affiliated with the UAE-backed Abi Al Abbas Brigades and government forces in the city of Al-Turbah, south of Taiz Governorate.
The sources said to the island that "gunmen attacked with light and medium machine guns a security center and a headquarters for the military police forces in the city."
The sources described the attack as an attempt to explode the situation in the city of Soil, due to the militias refusal to appoint President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Brigadier Abdul Rahman Shamsani, as commander of the thirty-fifth armored brigade in the National Army.
The military police said that the attack was led by outlaws and wanted for security issues, while sources said that Marwan Al-Barh, the commander of the Behan military site that is affiliated with the Emirati-backed Abu Al Abbas Brigades, led the attack.
An eyewitness said that gunmen had spread in some districts of the city of Soil, and that tension prevailed there.
A military source said that a military checkpoint of the 35th Brigade prevented Al-Shamsani today, Saturday, from reaching the headquarters of the brigade and forced him to change his path and head towards his home.
In turn, the governor of the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, Nabil Shamsan, said that the national army forces in the governorate must raise the readiness and break attempts to penetrate its ranks and miss the opportunity for those he described as the governorate's trainees and those who are trying to sow differences.
The governor affirmed - during a meeting with the leaders of the military brigades of the National Army in the governorate - today, Saturday, that the military leaders must mobilize efforts to achieve victory and defeat the Houthis, and enhance cohesion to end the suffering of citizens who live in difficult conditions due to the continuation of the war and the suffocating siege on the city of Taiz.
Press demonstration
In a related context, journalists and activists in the city of Mukalla, the center of Hadramaut Governorate, in eastern Yemen, organized a protest in front of the local authority building, to demand the release of detainees from the security and military authorities.
The stand, which was held in front of the headquarters of the local authority in Hadramout, according to its participants, demanded the release of photojournalist Abdullah Bakir (who works in the media team of the governor of Hadramout) and Ahmed Al Yazidi and Fahmy Afia (working in the local authority’s office in the governorate) after 50 days of their arrest.
Participants carried banners denouncing "the forced detention of journalists and citizens without legal justification, and the suppression of journalists and freedoms."
According to the participants, the local authorities did not charge the detainees with a clear charge, making the detention "a forced disappearance in violation of international laws and covenants and a flagrant violation of human rights."
Participants in the endowment called on human rights organizations to "seriously intervene and interact with the issue," threatening escalation, and demanding that the authorities "either prove a charge of evidence legally and legally, or release them with the force of law."
Since the arrest of Bakir, al-Yazidi, and Afafia, the local authorities have not formally charged them, but the Public Prosecutor in Hadramaut announced on June 2, days after their arrest, that "a gang was planning to assassinate Faraj al-Bahsni, the governor of Hadramaut and the commander of the Second Military Region."
At the beginning of this month, the Media Freedom Observatory (Yemeni non-governmental) announced that it recorded 100 cases of violations against journalists and media institutions during the first half of this year 2020.