Aden :The mothers of the detainees demand UAE to reveal their fate
YemenExtra
Y.A
With concern over the fate of those who were kidnapped forcibly in Aden by the UAE forces.. The mothers of them continued their protest vigils , expressed their fears and demanded of revealing the fate of their relatives who were forcibly hidden by the authorities, whereas they held, yesterday, a protest in front of the security fence,leading to the camp of the #Saudi -led-coalition in Brega district Which is run by the United Arab Emirates.
Mothers said the women’s police deployed after the protest and prevented taking any photo or video footage .
The detainees in the new prison of Bir Ahmed began an open hunger strike since Monday in protest against the prison administration’s refusal of the order of the public prosecutor to release 72 detainees, whereas it has hidden a number of them and transported them to unknown destinations.
,Notably, Human Right Watch accused Bin Daghr’s authorities backed by the Saudi-led coalition and UAE forces of torturing and raping African refugees seeking political asylum in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden.
African migrants and asylum seekers in Yemen have been executed, raped and tortured in detention by UAE-backed forces in Aden, Human Rights Watch and the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday in a statement.
“Guards at the migrant detention center in Aden have brutally beaten men, raped women, and boys, and sent hundreds out to sea in overloaded boats,” said Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at HRW.
Migrants held at the Buraika detention facility in use since early 2017 were denied refugee protection and often deported en masse into rough seas, according to HRW.
It said Interior Ministry loyal to Saudi-led coalition had responded to an HRW inquiry by saying they had dismissed the center’s commander and begun transferring migrants to another location.
The group said in its statement that the center was under coalition-backed authorities’ control, but that migrants were being arrested and taken there by forces backed by the UAE, which is a major component of a Saudi-led coalition that has intervened in Yemen’s civil war since 2015.
Emirates-backed Security Belt forces were charged with “rounding up and transporting migrants and displaced people to the detention center”.
Last year, more than 87,000 people arrived in Yemen from the Horn of Africa, according to UNHCR.
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