News - Yemen: The head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, Abdulqader Al-Murtadha, highlighted the crimes committed by the Islah Party militia against prisoners and detainees in the occupied prisons of Marib.

He further noted that Marib's mercenaries have not only resorted to blocking roads, but their treacherous actions have also extended into homes, violating the safety and security of civilians.

He pointed out that Mohammed Naji Marit was abducted from his home in Al-Hazm district, with his only "crime" being his freedom. In Al-Saleh Institute Prison in Marib, he was subjected to severe torture until he breathed his last. He added: "Yesterday, it was the poet Rashid Al-Hussam, today it is the citizen Majid Al-Amari, and in between, hundreds have been executed inside these brutal prisons."

The head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee explained that the murder of poet Rashid Al-Hutam at the hands of Islah Party mercenaries in Marib exposes the brutality of the Saudi-UAE-run detention centers. He noted that Al-Hutam was executed simply for expressing solidarity with Gaza and declaring his rejection of the enemies of God on the night of the ceasefire of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

He further described the inhumane conditions inside Marib's prisons, including physical torture, breaking prisoners' limbs, beating the wounded on their injuries, sleep deprivation, providing food infested with cockroaches and insects, starvation, contaminated drinking water, and preventing detainees from contacting their families.

Al-Murtadha also emphasized that Egyptian citizen Sahar Rajab has been pleading with her country’s authorities to intervene in her case, and facilitate her return to Egypt. However, her Egyptian nationality did not spare her from the brutality of the mercenaries in Marib’s prisons. After enduring severe torture, she was released but prohibited from traveling without any justification.

He also noted that detainees in Islah Party prisons in Marib are dying due to medical neglect and the lack of medicines to combat widespread diseases, while several women have also lost their lives due to brutal torture in these mercenary-run prisons.

The Saudi-UAE mercenaries have once again demonstrated its ongoing campaign of killing, kidnapping, imprisoning, and torturing those who oppose the American and Zionist agendas. Furthermore, its militias continue their routine practice of arbitrarily arresting passersby and travelers, subjecting them to severe torture without any legal justification.

Many citizens have reported cases of kidnapping, extortion, and robbery while traveling through occupied Marib, particularly along the Al-Abr route. Armed gangs, reportedly supported by mercenary authorities, frequently abduct, loot, and even kill travelers.

These actions in the occupied provinces constitute war crimes and blatant violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. However, human rights organizations have largely remained silent on these atrocities.