Documents disclose : 43 people forcibly hidden in Islah prisons in Taiz
English - Sunday 30 June 2019 الساعة 10:28 am
Taiz – NewsYemen.net
A Committee on Enforced Disappearances revealed that 43 people who have been abducted and forcibly disappeared from 2016 until 2019 in Taiz province have been done by the forces of the Islah Party that controls the province militarily.
The committee stated that the most recent information on the disappeared people were 13 who have been identified by the Military Intelligence, and only three of the total disappeared were released from Islah prisons in Taiz.
According to the Committee, 21 of the total number of the disappeared people have been forcibly hidden in 2016. and 11 others were forcibly hidden in 2017, and seven were forcibly hidden in 2018, and two were forcibly hidden in 2019.
14 people were imprisoned at the National Institute that run by the 22nd Armored Brigade and the Brigade took it a military headquarters, two were imprisoned at the Military Police, and one was imprisoned at al-Nahdha school. One was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Resistance Coordination Council headed by Sheikh Hamoud al-Mekhlafi.
A few months ago, security forces retrieved a number of dead bodies in a stronghold of Daesh organization in Taiz, including the dead body of the enforced disappeared Noman Abdullah Qassem.
Qassem was kidnapped by the 17th Infantry Brigade in al-Birain security checkpoint in al-Ma'afer, the Islah leader Dia al-Haq al-Ahdal directed to release him after getting a military guarantee, but he was not set free. His dead body was found in one of the cemeteries in al-Sameel Market, which was a stronghold of Daesh led by Abu al-Walid al-Wafi, the son of the Islahi leader Ali al-Wafi.
The Socialist Party escalated its speech against the secret prisons of the Islah Party in Taiz and organized a protest to demand to know the fate of its two young leaders who were forcibly hidden by the Islah Party, the Brotherhood in Yemen, in 2016, Ayoub al-Salehi and Akram Hameed.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official was assassinated last year when he arrived in Taiz city to discuss a secret prisons file in Taiz, which is run by the Islahi leader Dia al-Haq al-Ahdal.
