Abdul Hakim Al-Barakani disappeared in "Bermuda Street" in Taiz
English - Sunday 25 December 2022 الساعة 09:08 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The sector of the city of Taiz is a large prison, and Jamal Bermuda Street is the city.. This is how the residents of the city of Taiz, which is under the control of the Islah party politically, militarily and in security, describe it, with the increase in the rate of enforced disappearances since the early years of the outbreak of the war with the Houthi terrorist militia, Iran's arm in Yemen.
Citizens pay with their lives a price for the Islah and Houthi groups, a competitive duo of murder, kidnapping, torture and terrorism.
Professor Abd al-Hakim Yahya Abd al-Raqeeb al-Barakani, 60 years old, from Taiz Governorate, Jabal Habashi District, a government employee in the Water Corporation. He is a writer and community activist fighting the darkness during the time of the Brotherhood’s rule in Taiz, the city sector, and the state of Taiz, the al-Hawban sector, which is under the control of the Houthi militia.
With the beginning of the war and the coup extending from the north to the central regions and then the south, Al-Barakani worked to combat the remnants of darkness by writing his writings against the war and the coup against the state, and with the intensification of the battles in Taiz, institutions were looted, including the Water Corporation, which was the most affected.. Al-Barakani continued to defend public institutions, but The price was too great and could cost him his life.
Long wait for his return
Al-Barakani's family told NewsYemen: Abdel-Hakim was peaceful, he did not carry a gun or direct his words to a specific person, although he was criticizing everyone, and he did not know that he would pay the price for that with his freedom and perhaps his life.
And she adds: On Monday, August 8, 2016, Abdul Hakim went out to Jamal Street to bring special requests that he needed and the family needed, who did not know that Jamal Street in the city center of Taiz will be the last transit station for Al-Barakani.. The area is politically, militarily and security controlled by the Islah Party, which is close to the headquarters of the military and political authority. And local and crowded Palmarin between armed gangs.
With a little hope and many tears, the family continues, "We are still waiting for his return on the doorstep every evening. We hope that he will return." This is how the Barakani family says, living in the hope that their father will return to them, but absence and enforced disappearance are stronger than hope and light.
Suffering
No one knows the meaning of suffering if he does not taste from its bitter cup, especially the pain of absence. The family does not know whether he is alive or dead, sick or hungry. She lives in the corner of anxiety and the spiral of searching for it. This suffering was reflected healthily, physically and psychologically on his family. His wife suffered from chronic diseases such as pressure and others, and his children suffered from a bad psychological condition. His eldest son was exhausted by life in order to search for his missing father on Jamal Street in Taiz.
A long search
The family knocked on all the doors of official prisons and a few of the secret prisons that were exposed during the handover of military authority to government institutions such as schools, institutes and hospitals.. But there was no sign of Al-Barakani’s presence, which prompted him to search for the remainder of his salary to support the family, and there was no life for those who called.
Appeal
Like other families of the disappeared in Taiz's secret prisons, which compete with the Houthi militia, Iran's arm, with terrorist behavior, the family appeals to the authority, the Presidential Council, the Ministry of Human Rights, and the Public Prosecutor of the Republic to consider and move the file of the forcibly disappeared in the Taiz sector, which has been hidden from view for eight years.
The family also appeals to the public opinion to turn the issue of the forcibly disappeared in Taiz and other government-controlled areas into a public opinion case, and to put pressure on the concerned authorities to reveal the fate of the forcibly disappeared and release them or transfer them to the Public Prosecution and prosecute them if they are guilty.
