Horrific stories of victims of torture and extrajudicial killings in Yemen

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- The cries of the Yemeni thirties, Naif Al-Hindi, cried in vain, and his pleas were fading like the echo of the cries of his voice as he swallowed the bitterness of torture, before his executioners decided to execute him, to become a number in a record whose pages were filled with horrific stories of victims of torture and extrajudicial killings in Yemen.

Al-Hindi was arrested last week at one of the security checkpoints under the control of the Southern Transitional Council in Abyan Governorate (southern Yemen), and video clips circulated on the communication sites showed that the gunmen tortured him, and carried out an impromptu execution against him for theft and run over another citizen.

The incident aroused great shock and anger, as the Nisab district of Shabwa governorate - to which the victim belongs - witnessed angry and condemning demonstrations of the incident.

Hassan Al-Hindi told Al-Jazeera Net that "his brother suffers from a mental illness, and the torture and execution he was subjected to is not approved by Sharia or law."

He demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice and brought to justice for what they had committed.

2 ️⃣ The security belt in Abyan tortured the accused of murder (Naif Al-Hindi) before his extrajudicial execution, and did not guarantee his access to justice by issuing a final court ruling regarding the murder he committed and knowing the motives and merits of the crime he committed, so from their heads they executed him!! https:/ /t.co/Qky8puvaei pic.twitter.com/UrbVR23tGc

— Huda Al-Sarari (@h_alsarare) February 12, 2022

horrible chapters

This incident is not the first of its kind that shook the Yemeni street, but it is the latest in a series of escalating violations in the areas of control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces, which have recently experienced horrific chapters on the impact of the ongoing crimes of torture and extrajudicial killings.

In early September, the young man, Abdul Malik Al-Sanabani, was executed by soldiers from the 9th Brigade, a Thunderbolt, at one of the security checkpoints in Lahj Governorate, which is under the control of the Transitional Council, on charges of belonging to Al-Houthi.

Late last month, Khaled Bahakim was killed after members of the Crater police raided his house in Aden to arrest him over a quarrel.

Angry demonstrations condemning the execution of Naif Al-Hindi (communication sites)

Last October, a young man, Muhammad al-Majmi, was executed in two separate incidents by soldiers of the Security Belt forces at a checkpoint in the Yafa'a district, and a young man, Atef al-Harazi, a health worker at Doctors Without Borders, was shot dead by local gunmen who set up a checkpoint in the same district.

Among the crimes imprinted in the memory of Yemenis were those documented by a video tape circulated on social media in late 2019 of a mass execution of 3 people - including a child named Mabrouk Muhammad Al-Hazeef from Al-Mahwit Governorate - at one of the security barriers at the Al-Alam checkpoint on the road between Aden and Abyan.

#Rights_Radar condemns the extrajudicial execution that took place last Friday against the citizen, Nayef Hussein Al-Hindi, in a public square in the Lauder district of Abyan governorate, south of #Yemen.

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— RIGHTS RADAR (@RightsRadar) February 13, 2022

killed under torture

Among the most prominent murders under torture was what was revealed by the family of the young Hassan Baawada, who confirmed that her son had died under torture at the hands of forces affiliated with the Transitional Council in Aden after his arrest over a fight, and the family of Abdullah Al-Hayyi, who died 3 days after his arrest and tortured with hot water and electricity.

Since the outbreak of the current conflict in Yemen in March 2015, the number of deaths under torture in prisons and places of detention has reached 320 cases, including 10 children and women who died under torture, according to the President of the American Center for Justice (ACJ), lawyer Abdul Rahman Berman.

He told Al Jazeera Net that "these crimes are distributed among the various parties involved in the conflict, in which the Houthi group ranked first with a rate of (236) killings, followed by armed formations affiliated with the Transitional Council with (68) killings, 9 cases of government forces, and 7 killings. Under torture committed by al-Qaeda.

Although there are dozens of international and local human rights reports that monitored and documented many cases of torture and killing, the most recent of which was revealed by the head of the Monitor for Human Rights that some detainees suffered from chronic mental illnesses, as a result of the torture they were subjected to day and night, in Waddah Hall Prison, which is under the control of Transitional Council in Aden Governorate.

The American Center for Justice #ACJ condemns the extrajudicial execution of a Yemeni citizen in the governorate of #Abyan and demands the condemnation of this crime and the support of the official security services in addressing it and holding everyone involved in it accountable

Full statement: https://t.co/aYKpvJVQbz

— American Center For Justice (@acj_usa) February 13, 2022

Escaping from the Punishment

Anis Al-Sharek said in a post on his Facebook page, “Some of the detainees and forcibly disappeared inside this prison are going crazy from the severity of the torture, and he mentioned among them “a child under the age of 17, who was released after spending 8 months in captivity, and he suffered from a severe mental illness.” Electric shock torture.

The head of the Defense Foundation for Rights and Freedoms in Aden, Lawyer Huda Al-Sarari, confirmed the continuation and escalation of murder and torture, as "150 cases of assassination were monitored, most of which targeted politicians opposed to the transitional transition in Aden, in addition to 40 forcibly disappeared persons whose fate is unknown if they were alive or killed during torture in prisons." confidentiality.

She said in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that despite the issuance of many condemnations from the international community, and reports that stipulated facts for the Security Council's Panel of Experts and other human rights organizations;

Extrajudicial executions are still practiced, such as the execution of citizens of Tihama in Sana'a, in addition to killings under torture against journalists, political opponents and civilians.

She added that "the climate of impunity enjoyed by the de-facto authorities and their military formations, especially in light of the disruption of judicial institutions and the lack of accountability, encourages these militias outside the framework of the state in Yemen to commit brutal violations against civilians and exacerbate crimes of torture and extrajudicial executions."