Al-Houthi militia kidnaps Professor Al-Sharjabi, and the Sana'a University Teachers Union condemns it
English - Wednesday 09 September 2020 الساعة 07:32 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen:
This morning, the Iranian arm militia kidnapped Professor Adnan Abdulqader Al-Sharjabi, a professor of psychology at Sana'a University.
Sources confirmed that while Professor Al-Sharjabi was on his way to the university this morning, members of the Houthi militia blocked his way and took him to an unknown location.
The sources indicated that the university professor’s family feared the deterioration of his health during his forced absence in Houthi prisons, especially since Al-Sharjabi suffers from heart disease and edema of the lung and is subject to permanent treatments, which endangers his life.
In addition, bloggers and activists demanded the authorities of the Iranian arm militia in Sanaa to speed up the immediate release of Professor Adnan Al-Sharjabi, as he is an academic figure and should be honored, as well as taking into account his health condition.
We deplore the militia’s action in targeting university professors in their areas of control, despite the material and living suffering they were forced to accept forcibly while working under the militia’s control.
Professor Adnan al-Sharjabi is one of the most prominent professors of psychology in Yemen and has leftist leanings that do not agree with the status of the extremist terrorist militia.
The Syndicate of faculty members and their assistants at Sana'a University confirmed in a statement that Dr. Adnan Abdulqadir Al Sharjabi, a member of the faculty at the College of Arts and Humanities at Sana'a University, was kidnapped today, Wednesday, September 9, 2020, while he was on his way to college.
The statement indicated that the kidnapped was carried out by the security authorities of the Houthi militia authorities in Sana'a in front of the university gate without disclosing the reason for the arrest, and since then contact with him was cut off and the place to which he was transferred was not known.
The Syndicate of faculty members and their assistants condemned the continuation of these practices outside the constitution and law towards faculty members, and demanded the protection of the faculty at the university so that it could carry out its duty under the exceptional circumstances in which they live with the interruption of salaries and the collapse of their economic and health status. And their freedoms to be suppressed and restricted.
The Syndicate called on the parties who carried out the kidnapping to speed up his release, and for university employees to be dealt with in accordance with the constitutional and legal frameworks.
The Syndicate called on civil society organizations and all bodies and institutions concerned with human rights to stand by it. With the aim of liberating Al-Sharjabi from detention outside the framework of the constitution and the law.
The Syndicate called on the Presidency of Sana'a University to perform its duty entrusted to it to protect the faculty and all employees of Sana'a University, and to bear responsibility for what Dr. Adnan Al-Sharjabi might suffer from his health condition, especially that he suffers from chronic diseases, including the heart, and needs special health care, in addition to have medication necessary to keep his health under control.
