Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
A Yemeni human rights organization has reported that there are 815 abductees and 164 forcibly disappeared individuals held in prisons across the country, primarily in Houthi-controlled areas. This comes amidst shameful international silence and a failure to achieve justice for these victims and their families.
The Association of Mothers of the Abducted, in a statement, condemned the ongoing abductions and enforced disappearances of innocent civilians, including activists, human rights defenders, and women, without any legal justification or reason.
The association denounced the grave human rights violations, which constitute a blatant violation of national and international laws, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The statement affirmed that the continued detention of dozens of women without legal justification constitutes a double crime that violates the values of our society and our humanitarian traditions, as well as international conventions that criminalize violence against women and attacks on their rights.
The association denounced the international community’s neglect and silence regarding the file of the abducted without a radical and decisive solution, and the attempt to politicize this humanitarian file, the solution of which would lay the foundations for peace in Yemen.
The statement continued: “We in the Association of Mothers of the Abducted demand the immediate and unconditional release of all abductees and forcibly disappeared persons, and we hold the Houthi group primarily and all violating parties fully responsible for their lives and safety.”
The association called on the UN envoy and all human rights and humanitarian organizations to work with us and pressure to move the file of the abducted internationally, ensure the accountability of the perpetrators, and compel the violating parties to implement international agreements and resolutions related to their release and compensation for them and their families.
It also stressed the need to stop violations against women and women human rights activists, and to ensure the accountability of those responsible for these crimes that threaten the dignity of Yemeni women, and renewed its commitment to continue the human rights struggle until the freedom of every abducted, detained, and forcibly disappeared person is achieved, and prisons are cleared and dignity is restored to every victim of abduction, arbitrary arrest, and enforced disappearance.
