NYN |News
The 4th Mountain Infantry Brigade, led by Abu Bakr al-Jabouli, a member of the Islah Party, continues to carry out arbitrary arrest campaigns targeting dozens of residents from the Al-Maqatirah district in Lahj province and the Al-Shamayatayn district in Taiz province for the second consecutive year. These campaigns have been marked by severe violations, including arbitrary detention and torture in illegal secret prisons.
For more than a year and a half, brigade forces have conducted random arrests, detaining 25 civilians, including three children. They were taken to secret detention centers without any legal justification and subjected to horrific physical and psychological torture, deprived of communication with their families, and denied any fair trial.
One of the victims of this campaign was 15-year-old Mohammed Sultan Hamid Mohammed, who was arrested on December 1, 2023, on charges of detonating a military vehicle, despite investigations confirming that the actual perpetrators had already been arrested on the western coast.
Similarly, Naif Sultan Hamid Mohammed (25 years old) has been forcibly detained since October 17, 2017, on the same charge, without any legal proceedings, and remains imprisoned under inhumane conditions.
Despite judicial orders demanding the release of the detainees or their transfer to the public prosecution and relevant authorities, the commander of the 4th Mountain Infantry Brigade has refused to comply. As a result, several detainees remain imprisoned, including Ahmed Zayed Sultan Hamid (14 years old), Nader Murtada Naaman Abdullah (16 years old), Ahmed Mohammed Sultan Hamid, Yasser Al-Nasiri, Shihab Alwan, Al-Oteil Nasser Murtada, Ahmed Abdulkarim, Hubaysh Taha Mohammed Tarish, Alwan Shukri Alwan, Ghamdan Fahdan Mohammed Muqbil, Adel Abdu Ahmed Aoun, Naqis Sultan Hamid, Adel Mohammed Ahmed, Hussein Taha Mohammed Tarish, and others, with no information available about their conditions or fate.
Families and relatives of the detainees have called on human rights and child rights organizations to urgently intervene, pressuring the brigade’s leadership to release those forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained, and to hold those responsible for their illegal detention and torture accountable.
