The families of Yemeni journalists abducted by al-Houthi’s coupist militias four years ago said that their children were tortured and beaten to fainting inside the Political Security prison in the capital Sanaa.
According to an urgent communiqué issued by the Association of Mothers of Yemeni abductees, the organization received a report from the families of abducted journalists Salah al-Qaidi, Akram al-Walidi, Harith Hamid and Issam Belghith, who reported being severely beaten on Sunday night after taking off their clothes and leaving them for more than four hours in the harsh cold.
Journalist Salah al-Qa’idi exposed to syncope by the severity of the beating.
It considered Al-Houthi’s militias abduction crimes of journalists for nearly four years, the continuous attacks on them and the violation of their humanity without any legal or humanitarian deterrent, needs urgent action with all human rights organizations, human rights activists and media workers to save them and end their suffering and the suffering of thousands of abducted and forcibly disappeared.
The “abductees mothers” appealed to the United Nations and its envoy to rescue kidnapped journalists before starting any consultations between the Yemeni parties. Holding Al-Huthi also the responsibility of all journalists who were abducted and forcibly disappeared inside its prisons and demanded their unconditional release or exchange.
More than a dozen journalists are still in al-Houthi militia prisons in Sanaa, suffering from poor psychological and health conditions, amid persistent insistence on their continued detention despite repeated demands from local and international organizations for their release.
Wahid al-Sufi has been in a state of enforced disappearance since he was kidnapped by al-Houthi militias in April 2015 and his family is not yet aware of his fate.
