Latest News – Human rights group vows to prosecute UAE officials involved in torture in Yemen

The International Coalition for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms, a human rights organization in Paris, announced the appointment of a legal team to prosecute UAE officials for their work. involvement in torture and enforced disappearances South Yemen. "The coalition is a comprehensive legal file on the crimes of torture, prisons and enforced disappearances committed in Yemen, involving the southern armed factions directly affiliated with the UAE," said Mohammed al-Shami, chairman of the Justice Coalition. . According to our record and our documents, in addition to the various international reports on torture and enforced disappearance in the UAE prisons, the legal committee and the legal adviser of the coalition have been accused of having launched an international trial for those responsible. these crimes are investigating.

Among UAE officials who will be prosecuted by the Coalition for Justice and Development, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as Vice President and Minister of the Interior, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan In their secret prisons in Yemen, according to Shami.

This follows Amnesty International's July 12 release of a new report on a network of secret prisons in southern Yemen that documented dozens of torture and enforced disappearances among Yemenis in the hands of the emirates United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

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The report indicates that the families of the detainees are living a "nightmare that does not end with the forced disappearance of their families by the forces supported by the UAE" and that their members are silent or intimidated. They want to know where their loved ones are or where they are alive. He said: "The United Arab Emirates, operating in mysterious circumstances in southern Yemen, have put in place a security structure parallel to the law that allows for the perpetration of gross violations," said Tirana Hassan, director of the United Nations. Amnesty International's intervention program, without charge or sergeant. "