Legitimacy criticizes the UN's disregard for the Houthi crimes against the abductees

English - Thursday 05 August 2021 الساعة 10:40 am
Aden, NewsYemen:

The head of the government team concerned with the file of prisoners and abductees, "Hadi Haig", criticized the United Nations' disregard for the crimes of the Houthi militia against the abductees in its prisons, and said that this does not encourage the continuation of consultations regarding the prisoners.

This came in an official memorandum sent by the head of the government team on the issue of prisoners and abductees to the envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Swedish diplomat, "Hans Grundberg", on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.

Haig said in a letter to Hans Grundberg, the new UN envoy to Yemen, that "the (UN) silence encouraged the Houthi group to continue committing more violations against the prisoners and the abductees."

The government official called on the UN envoy to "condemn the murder of the kidnapped (Mohsen Al-Qadi)", who was spent in the prisons of the Houthi militia in Dhamar governorate last week, and demanded that he "take an explicit and public position on the crimes of the Houthi group."

He stressed that "the international disregard for such crimes does not encourage the continuation of consultations regarding the prisoners and the abductees."

He pointed out that the Houthi militia "abducted the citizen Mohsen Muhammad Ali Al-Qadi (38 years) from his home on March 24, 2020, and forcibly disappeared him until July 29, 2021, and then killed him, after which it summoned some of his relatives and pressured them to bury a body they did not recognize and did not even allow the body to be displayed.  to a forensic physician.

Earlier, the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Human Rights said that it had "reported 1,635 cases of torture in the past two years, and more than 350 cases of murder under torture, including 33 kidnapped women who were subjected to torture leading to death, and a number of abductees died as a result of neglect and the deterioration of their health conditions in light of the continued denial of treatment."  Others were subjected to physical liquidation in militia prisons.