Yesterday, Sam Organization for Rights and Freedoms called on the authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to disclose the fate of an official in the Yemeni legitimate government and a Yemeni citizen who have been forcibly disappeared for several weeks.
The organization said in a press statement that Abd al-Karim Hussein Ali Thu`il, 35, the first deputy governor of Sanaa in the legal government, had been forcibly disappeared since March 12, during his return to Saudi Arabia from Hadramout, accompanied by his wife and infant son.
The organization stated that Thu`il was arrested at the Saudi airport in Jeddah by persons believed to be affiliated with Saudi intelligence, and was then transferred to the Al-Safarat neighborhood police station before he was subsequently hidden, and his fate is not known at this point.
According to the testimonies of those close to Thu`il, who preferred not to reveal their names, Sam said that Thu`il was arrested upon his return from an inspection visit to the fighting fronts in Marib, where two men presented him with military clothes at Jeddah airport and informed him that he was issued against him, and then took him and left his wife alone with Baby, many sheikhs and officials have tried to contact the authorities to find out what happened, but to no avail.
One of Tha'il's friends said that there is a fear for his fate, as his family does not know the place of his detention or the reason for the arrest and no one is allowed to visit him, at a time when the family fears that his arrest will be due to a false pretext, especially since there are differences between him and some officials in the legitimate government and reached the judiciary The Saudi.
In the same context, the organization Sam revealed the arrest of the Saudi authorities on April 21, the last Hisham Mohammed Ahmed Al-Jabri (25 years), a Yemeni, from the headquarters of his relative in Riyadh. His family knew nothing but that he was taken to the General Investigation, a body specialized in state security and serious cases.
The head of the "Sam" Tawfiq Al-Hamidi organization said that the Saudi authorities should disclose the place of detention of Abdul Karim Tha'il and Hisham Al-Jabri, and inform their families about their detention.
SAM also renewed Saudi Arabia’s call for the immediate disclosure of the forcibly disappeared Yemenis in its prisons, such as journalist Marwan Al-Marisi, who has been detained since June 2018, and Brigadier Rashad Al-Hamiri, who has been detained since 2017, to stop arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of Yemenis, civilians and military personnel, including Including combat soldiers in the southern border.