UAE Executes Southern Activists in Its Secret Prison in Aden

YemenExtra

M.A.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which controls the southern provinces of Yemen, executed on Tuesday a number of southern activists who had been forcibly hidden for several months in its secret prison known as the “Waddah Prison” located in the southern city of Aden.

Rights activists in Aden said that the UAE forces had executed a number of activists, including an activist in the southern movement, who was being held inside one of the prisons it runs, known as the “Waddah Prison” in the Goldmore area of Aden.

According to an activist in the province of Aden, who preferred not to be identified in a special statement to “Yemen Extra”, said that among the people who were executed inside the prison “Waddah,” which the UAE runs,  is the female activist in the southern movement Ansam Abdul Samad and each of Nayef Mohammed al-Kahbi, Salim al-Kabi Qinashi and Nasser Thabet al-Abd in Waddah Prison affiliated with Aden’s criminal investigation, and that they had refused to hand over their bodies to their relatives.

According to the activist, the activist Ansam Abdel-Samad was arrested nearly two years ago, after she began criticizing UAE crimes and humanitarian violations perpetrated in Aden and the south in general.

The execution of a number of southern activists in prisons of the UAE occurred days after the Associated Press released an exclusive report that discussed the practices and brutal methods of torture conducted by the UAE forces against those who have been missing in secret prisons, not to mention sexual assaults, abuse and collective punishment of prisoners under US-Emirati supervision.