The report of secret prisons and enforced disappearances in Yemen from 2014 to 2020
This report is among the qualitative monitoring reports issued by Human Rights Information & Training Center (HRITC) as a result of the war that erupted widely since the Houthi movement’s coup against the Yemeni authority in Sana’a, September 21, 2014, followed directly by the widespread military intervention of the Arab coalition forces supporting the legitimate authority led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in March. 2015, and the continuation of the war formed a new reality whose features highlighted the multiplicity of human rights violations, the occurrence of grave violations of the charters of international humanitarian law and the principles of human rights law. During the last five years.
Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) team monitored this frightening phenomenon, which left hundreds of people in forgotten prisons and the memory of the surgeons will remain open in the hearts of Yemenis for a long time.
More seriously, we stand before a changing reality every day when events and numbers change and the number of victims increases, and the most dangerous is the increase in the fear of giving live testimonies; Because the victims believe that the danger on all sides remains severe and there is no real protection for the victims and witnesses, and the various parties that have established these prisons are also working to change the places of their detention, close prisons, open other prisons, and transfer the abductees to it.
Monitoring and documentation of fieldwork approaches, as well as the efforts of local and international organizations, activists, and investigative press reports, have been adopted to arrive at a report that paves the way for broad action, especially with the continuation of the phenomenon and the complexity of the scene every day in the map of the conflict in Yemen and we focused on prisons and places of detention that were marred by mystery and secrecy And cases of arrests and enforced disappearances, including the detention of people in places isolated from the outside world, where there are many and secret prisons in Yemen vary according to the multiplicity of the various parties to the war, which are several sides, but most notably:
– Armed Houthi Group
– Arab coalition forces supporting legitimacy
– The legitimate government
– Anti-Houthi armed factions
The report :
