Abdul-Ghani..a mental patient subjected to enforced disappearance and torture in the prisons of the Brotherhood in Taiz

English - Wednesday 28 September 2022 الساعة 03:50 pm
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:

“I went to release my detained brother and discovered the presence of my brother who was hidden a year ago.” The details are almost like a TV drama, but it is a true story experienced by a family in Taiz that was subjected to violations by the Brotherhood’s authority in the governorate.

The story of its first hero, Abdul-Ghani Taher Al-Shaibani, who has been suffering from a mental illness for about 20 years, suddenly disappeared about a year ago in the city of Taiz, and his family's efforts to find him failed after they searched for him in all security and military formations, hospitals and mortuaries, before they were discovered by chance that he is in a prison.

Abdel-Ghani’s brother, Fath, tells “NewsYemen” the details of his brother’s accidental discovery about two months ago, while following up on the case of the arrest of their third brother, Abdel Nasser, who works in the Al-Shamayatayn Security Department in Al-Turbah, on a malicious charge for objecting to some violations and corruption, to be deported to the Military Intelligence Prison in Taiz.  accused of being affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Fatah says that he went to the prison affiliated with the military intelligence led by Brotherhood Brigadier General Abdo Al-Buhairi, to release his brother Abdel Nasser, and was informed by the prison officials that his brother had not been proven guilty of any charges and could receive him, only to be surprised by his brother Abdel Nasser telling him that he had found their hidden brother, Abdel Ghani Inside the prison.

Fatah points out that his brother Abdel-Ghani was released thanks to the intervention of the deputy chief of intelligence, Anwar Al-Jundi, who rushed to transfer his brother to a psychiatric hospital for treatment;  Because of his poor condition after he spent about 10 months in hiding in prison, during which he was tortured in various ways, including electricity, according to what he told him days after his psychological condition improved.

Two months after his release, Fatah says that last Thursday, he received calls from the intelligence prison officials to bring his brother from the sanatorium and hand him over to the head of the Military Prosecution in the Brotherhood's Taiz axis, Muhammad Hassan, threatening to bring him by force from inside the sanitarium.

He added, that the so-called Muhammad Hassan directed, upon Abdul-Ghani's arrival, to transfer him to the central prison in Taiz, despite the absence of any accusation or evidence of conviction against him or an official investigation with him.  After he insisted on knowing his accusation, he was finally informed that he had been arrested about a year ago because he was near the house of the axis commander, Major General Khaled Fadel, and the house of Adviser to Brigadier General Abdo Farhan Salem, who is the military leader of the Brotherhood in Taiz.

Fatah refers to Muhammad Hassan's procrastination in releasing his brother Abdul-Ghani, despite bringing papers and reports proving that he has been suffering from a mental illness for more than 20 years, instead of investigating the crime of disappearance and torture he was subjected to over the past months, which compounded his poor psychological condition.

The disclosure of the story of the hidden Abdul Ghani al-Shaibani is one of the evidence that confirms the existence of dozens of forcibly disappeared persons in prisons affiliated with the Brotherhood in Taiz, despite local and international appeals, calls and reports calling for their disclosure and the closure of all secret and illegal prisons.