AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): A human rights report revealed that Saudi and Emirati forces in Al-Mahrah province have committed a number of human rights violations against civilians in the province, which is far from areas of conflict.
A report in the human rights office in the province stated that Saudi Arabia captured Al-Juhaida International Airport, where the Saudi forces were carrying out a series of violations, as well as turning a civilian facility (airport-port) into a military base. Arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, Legally empowered, and physical and psychological violence are some of these violations.
The airport is occupied by Saudi forces and they have refused to reopen it. The latest report accused the use of human and military force and intimidation, the use of individual and collective detention rooms to restrict the freedom of civilians. No detainees have been put through a fair trial or referred to a Public Prosecution. Some of the prisoners were sent to Saudi Arabia and their fate still unknown.
The report revealed the refusal of the command of Saudi forces to allow the prosecution or any official or civil authority to enter the prison at the airport. No organization has been able to investigate the facts. The degree of violations practiced by the Saudi forces amounted to the level of crimes against humanity.
The report pointed that the office does not have any integrated legal monitoring data because of the lack of access to the detainee, noting that the preliminary information indicates that some military arrest of citizens in private rooms for between 1 and 10 days, and taken to an unknown destination (forced concealment).
The report revealed that the Saudi forces, with the complicity of the so-called legitimacy, the establishment of several military barracks near the homes and areas of citizens and their places of work and source of livelihood, which led to the evacuation of the inhabitants of these sites.
The report, which is the first of its kind, recommended that the Yemeni Public Prosecution should take the legal role of allowing the entry and inspection of the Al-Juhaida International Airport and the military barracks at an active port, in order to conduct legal investigations.
The report also recommended that the local authority be allowed to impose administrative and supervisory control over all administrative and military units in the governorate, in accordance with Yemeni law, and called upon the leadership of the Saudi and UAE forces to respect the national sovereignty of Yemen and the constitution and the law.
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23 January 2019 - 13:51
News ID: 926036
A human rights report revealed that Saudi and Emirati forces in Al-Mahrah province have committed a number of human rights violations against civilians in the province, which is far from areas of conflict.
