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[00:00:02] in charge would come to me once
[00:00:03] at night and once
[00:00:17] he refused. One of
[00:00:33] Perhaps three days after a collective cell, we became in
[00:00:34] At that time, for me in prison,
[00:00:42] slept at night and 14 slept during
[00:00:48] I entered
[00:00:52] The first 45 days I spent
[00:01:30] They took me down after that. A day after
[00:01:46] I left the house, I was waiting for my wife to come out with
[00:01:50] the children. I was surprised by a civilian
[00:01:54] as I told you, of car with five
[00:01:56] armed men. I knew some of them. They worked with
[00:02:00] the Houthi supervisor in the Mathbah area. I was taken immediately.
[00:02:04] My eyes were tied with
[00:02:07] to make an effort. We actually reached the well-known headscarf or the Yemeni
[00:02:09] one. They tied my eyes and took me
[00:02:13] immediately. I discovered that they did not go to the Mathbah
[00:02:17] slapping, and hitting police station. It was as if they took me to an open area. I estimate this because my eyes
[00:02:20] were blindfolded. From 10 AM to
[00:02:25] and they took me out, saying, "Congratulations on 2 PM, they left me in an area that was sunny, and I was alone in the car.
[00:02:28] eyes closed and don't know what was written in This is what I understood.
[00:02:31] I don't know what was wanted.
[00:02:34] It was a moment of silence.
[00:02:36] After that, they immediately drove the car
[00:02:40] and took me away. I discovered that they took me to
[00:02:43] Al-Judairi police station in the western region of the capital secretariat.
[00:03:01] They immediately put me in solitary confinement in the area,
[00:03:03] and I remained there for approximately six days.
[00:03:13] Take my father out of
[00:03:35] perhaps, in any
[00:03:37] atom of
[00:03:42] And a new suffering began in
[00:03:50] Of course, due to my specialization, I study Sharia and law, and I completed my studies in Sharia
[00:03:53] and law.
[00:03:56] I asked them to go to
[00:03:58] abductees, along with many the prosecution. Is there a complaint against me? What is required? I was surprised.
[00:04:02] Approximately on the fifth of Ramadan, exactly a Wednesday,
[00:04:05] they took me out in the afternoon to a Hilux and blindfolded
[00:04:09] me. It was between Asr
[00:04:13] and Maghrib prayers. We were preparing for the Iftar meal.
[00:04:17] I was trying to prepare myself
[00:04:19] for Iftar. They took me
[00:04:22] The torturers tortured them outside in directly for about two to three
[00:04:25] hours. My eyes
[00:04:29] were covered. I don't know exactly where they took
[00:04:33] sometimes lasting for hours in this me, but I later discovered a visit. that I was taken to
[00:04:38] he came immediately and said, "Okay, this of torture they practiced was hitting get a five-minute visit a house with a basement. I waited until approximately
[00:04:41] 1 AM. The time was
[00:04:43] like that.
[00:04:46] In this place, I couldn't hear anyone. No one
[00:04:50] outer corridor. He reached came to me. I tried to knock on the door.
[00:04:54] I yelled, I spoke, but there was
[00:04:58] no one.
[00:05:06] him?" Because visits in two weeks old. Could you just bring him
[00:05:12] The summoning and interrogation began. They took me out immediately,
[00:05:16] and of course, my eyes were blindfolded. The interrogation
[00:05:19] with me continued from 12 AM to 4 AM.
[00:05:23] The entire interrogation was conducted while I was suspended and my eyes
[00:05:26] were tied with a
[00:05:30] very tight nylon rope, so
[00:05:33] much so that my ears and eyes swelled.
[00:05:36] And with the long period of suspension, 13
[00:05:40] days, my entire body also swelled. There was no movement.
[00:05:46] the suspension, I fell into a coma. I didn't feel I was
[00:05:50] there.
[00:05:56] There were questions that I really couldn't deal
[00:06:00] with, or how one could answer them.
[00:06:05] in interrogation, sometimes they would ask me only one question per
[00:06:09] night. This means
[00:06:11] that they were, and I would ask the interrogator, "Why? What exactly
[00:06:15] do you want from me?"
[00:06:16] As the interrogator said,
[00:06:23] "We are required to kill
[00:06:27] you, and you will die hanging." That's what he used to tell me.
[00:06:43] being suspended, I fell directly to the ground for approximately
[00:06:45] two weeks.
[00:06:52] Of course, I stopped speaking during this period because I couldn't
[00:06:56] speak anymore. I also stopped eating because
[00:06:59] I couldn't eat at all. So I only consumed water during
[00:07:02] this stage,
[00:07:05] so much so that I felt at this stage as if I was dying, or that death was
[00:07:08] the only means by which I was living at this stage.
[00:07:14] I was summoned by an investigation officer who told me, "You
[00:07:17] have nothing against you. Therefore, write
[00:07:20] a letter to whom it may concern, stating that
[00:07:24] you are to be released." After I wrote the paper
[00:07:27] and appealed for my release, they told me, "Okay, the order
[00:07:31] for your release has been issued." A small bus owner came.
[00:07:34] Of course, my eyes were blindfolded,
[00:07:37] your release!" They took me directly to
[00:07:40] the political security prison.
[00:08:55] the political security prison: electric shocks and torture with electricity,
[00:08:58] and bringing pots of water, and putting
[00:09:02] electricity in
[00:09:03] them.
[00:09:39] Among the methods of torture used by the Houthis, also, regarding
[00:09:43] my fingernails and wrists, with many colleagues, among the methods
[00:09:48] the head, and two of my colleagues suffered paralysis
[00:09:52] from it. My colleague Anas Al-Sarari is still paralyzed,
[00:09:55] and you have heard a lot about him in the media. My colleague Abdul Aziz
[00:09:59] Al-Hakimi is still paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair in prison now.
[00:10:02] The
[00:10:05] most severe method of torture practiced against
[00:10:08] abductees, for me, I felt the house I was transferred
[00:10:12] to was almost next to Al-Sawad camp, which is the Republican
[00:10:16] Guard camp, the well-known camp. And I used to hear airstrikes
[00:10:19] continuously. And the one
[00:10:21] in charge of the prison or the two
[00:10:28] during the day. I used to ask them, "Why? Where are you going? Why
[00:10:31] am I left alone in this place?" They said, "The place
[00:10:34] is targeted by airstrikes, so we leave,
[00:10:38] and we cannot stay in this place because it might be hit by airstrikes
[00:10:41] at any time." And I used to hear the strikes very
[00:10:45] close indeed to the place, and the message was clear.
[00:10:49] When
[00:10:51] I was transferred from solitary confinement to
[00:10:55] a collective cell that was approximately four by six,
[00:10:58] with 28 prisoners inside. We were there,
[00:11:02] we took turns sleeping. We divided it into 12, meaning 14
[00:11:07] the day because there was no place to sleep inside
[00:11:10] the cell. In light of this overcrowding,
[00:11:13] skin diseases spread widely, and we suffered greatly from them,
[00:11:17] and I still suffer from them until now. For me,
[00:11:20] it spread, such
[00:11:24] as lice and other things,
[00:11:27] also due to the lack of water and ventilation inside the cell itself.
[00:11:31] The cell is dark, of course. If the electricity goes out, the cell is dark
[00:11:34] constantly, day and night. After a year and a month,
[00:11:38] maybe two months of imprisonment, I went out to the sun once and suffered from blindness.
[00:11:42] I couldn't look, meaning I couldn't see the sky.
[00:12:02] During the summoning, you are summoned with your eyes blindfolded,
[00:12:05] and you are interrogated while suspended and blindfolded.
[00:12:08] Therefore, you cannot recognize anyone inside the
[00:12:12] prison.
[00:12:14] But there are names inside the prison,
[00:12:19] those responsible for torture during the interrogation: this is Yahya
[00:12:22] Sarea.
[00:12:30] This person is, of course, a
[00:12:33] criminal, barbaric in a way that no one can imagine. He
[00:12:37] attends during the interrogation and carries out torture, beating,
[00:12:42] the testicles during the interrogation by these
[00:12:46] interrogators.
[00:13:55] On Eid al-Adha,
[00:13:58] Al-Hassan Al-Sarari himself fell ill with us and went into a coma that lasted
[00:14:02] for perhaps two hours. We for our part,
[00:14:06] thought he might have died.
[00:14:09] So we started knocking
[00:14:11] on the door. The prison director at
[00:14:15] that time came immediately with approximately 15
[00:14:18] torturers with their electric batons, electric
[00:14:22] rods. They immediately entered, asking, "Why are you knocking on the door?" We said, "Someone
[00:14:25] is dead."
[00:14:27] He said, "What's it to you? Even if he dies, don't interfere."
[00:14:31] So we said, "Okay, at least let's knock on the door." He said, "Who knocked on the door?"
[00:14:34] We told him, "All of us knocked on the door."
[00:14:38] There were three of those present who said, "Not all of us
[00:14:41] knocked on the door. I, so-and-so, and so-and-so knocked on the door." He said, "Get out!"
[00:14:47] the sun, flogging them. At this time, all the cells
[00:14:50] were watching and listening. You could hear what was happening: torture, suspension,
[00:14:54] and screaming. And screaming,
[00:14:58] place. So
[00:15:03] one in a coma, I'll show you what I'll do." And he started dragging
[00:15:07] him. They dragged him directly
[00:15:11] in front of us. and took him to the
[00:15:15] the outer corridor and remained there for approximately the time after Isha
[00:15:19] until before Fajr. Then they dragged him
[00:15:22] again and brought him back to us. He entered.
[00:15:26] have woken up and so on. He was sitting, but he didn't recognize anyone.
[00:15:29] Dust was on his face and
[00:15:33] body because they dragged him away. A little
[00:15:36] later,
[00:15:45] they took him to the outer corridor and threw him there. And after they saw
[00:15:48] him starting to wake up, they immediately brought him back and dragged him to
[00:15:50] prison.
[00:15:53] One day, I was summoned on the pretext of having
[00:15:57] a visit. It was the first visit.
[00:15:59] They took me out directly,
[00:16:02] and I was
[00:16:06] then, when he took me out, he said, "You might have a visit." I told him, "But
[00:16:09] I haven't cut my hair for a year and two months. My children, the first time they see
[00:16:13] me, will say that their father has gone mad or something."
[00:16:16] He said, "Okay, we'll cut your hair." They cut my hair
[00:16:20] and gave me a jacket to wear, and immediately took me to a room.
[00:16:26] the room and was surprised.
[00:16:28] I was, of course, blindfolded. They immediately sat me on a chair. I sat
[00:16:32] down, and they opened my eyes. I looked around and saw approximately
[00:16:35] seven photographers and seven
[00:17:03] I was surprised. I spoke to someone next to me.
[00:17:06] He said, "Look, you have a visit now,
[00:17:09] and your family has been waiting for you for a year
[00:17:13] and two months. Take this paper and sign it quickly so you can go on a visit."
[00:17:38] I saw the paper, and it was written in it that I was
[00:17:41] a military leader and I belonged to cells working in the military
[00:17:45] aspect, and that those who were following these cells, meaning he wrote
[00:17:48] a group of names for me, and these names carried out the assassination
[00:17:52] of so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so.
[00:17:55] Of course, I told him, "I can, if you want me to read it to you, read
[00:17:59] what is in my file. I have no problem
[00:18:02] even if I sign it with my
[00:18:06] the file, but I will read to you from the file. I haven't heard about this, nor do
[00:18:09] I know about it, and I cannot say it." He said, "Then you
[00:18:13] cannot visit, and you cannot get any visit if you do not
[00:18:17] talk about these things." And he left
[00:18:19] immediately, saying, "I will bring you Yahya Sarea to show you what to do."
[00:18:23] Of course, some journalists spoke to him and said, "Maybe
[00:18:26] you can give him his file and so on." He said, "Okay, stop filming with him,
[00:18:30] and I will deny his name, and I
[00:18:32] am watching him, and he will come back and talk about everything." This is
[00:18:36] just a denial.
[00:19:15] My family at this stage realized that I was
[00:19:18] finished. Of course, they went to the United Nations, they went to the Red
[00:19:21] Cross, they appealed. With every visit the UN
[00:19:25] envoy made to Sana'a, my family appealed to him in
[00:19:28] their meeting. They did not leave any security agency, National Security,
[00:19:32] Political Security, Investigation, they did not leave any agency or department
[00:19:36] without going to search for me, even the houses that were known
[00:19:39] as places of detention and disappearance, such as Ali Mohsen's house, Hamid
[00:19:42] al-Ahmar's house. They went searching but could not find me anywhere. Therefore,
[00:19:46] my family had completely despaired,
[00:19:48] my wife
[00:19:55] and children. I was summoned again.
[00:19:58] They said, "Okay, speak to the media and introduce
[00:20:01] yourself. Whatever you want to say." I introduced myself,
[00:20:04] and I was allowed
[00:20:08] Visiting them in
[00:20:10] prison. The luckiest ones
[00:20:14] in prison. I had a child born during my detention. He was two
[00:20:18] weeks old.
[00:20:19] Al-Zubair.
[00:20:22] I was surprised, of course, after a year and two or four
[00:20:25] months, the first time I saw him, I asked
[00:20:29] the prison supervisor at that time, who is also a person
[00:20:33] named Othman in prison, I told him, "Of course, this
[00:20:37] is my son. I was arrested when he was
[00:20:40] through the window so I can see
[00:20:44] prison are a kind of suffering. There is approximately
[00:20:47] a 4-meter distance between you and
[00:20:50] your family. And you have a window barrier,
[00:20:53] and they have another window barrier, so you can't even see them through the window
[00:20:57] due to the distance, and at the same time, the window
[00:21:00] is on your side and their side. So I asked
[00:21:03] him,
[00:21:07] the others saw the children crying and so on,
[00:21:10] he reacted and said, "Maybe we can bring the child from here."
[00:21:12] While they were trying to bring him through the window, he immediately
[00:21:16] took him like this, took him from their hands and said, "Send him back, he can't
[00:21:20] enter." And so on.
[00:21:24] there was nothing that one could worry about
[00:21:28] more than what I had already suffered. So I raised my voice
[00:21:31] and yelled at him
[00:21:34] and spoke.
[00:21:37] He said, "Okay, for you, this is the last visit, and you cannot visit after
[00:21:40] that."
[00:22:18] They summoned me on the basis that I was released.
[00:22:21] And I signed a consent form and goodbye.
[00:22:24] I went out, they blindfolded me and took me in
[00:22:27] a Hilux. Someone called Abu Turab,
[00:22:30] as they called him, carried me in a Hilux and took me directly to
[00:22:34] a house. And a new suffering began.
[00:22:38] I discovered during this stage that they had hidden
[00:22:41] me as a bargaining chip, that I would not be released except through
[00:22:44] exchanges. But how could this happen? It had to
[00:22:47] be kept secret, so that his family
[00:22:50] and relatives would follow up and pressure some sheikhs,
[00:22:54] the mediators who were trying
[00:22:57] the final point that we could not be released except
[00:23:00] through an exchange. We tried to talk to their
[00:23:03] committee head who used to come to us, who is Abu
[00:23:06] Hilal
[00:23:07] Al-Murtada. We talked to him
[00:23:11] and explained to him, "I was abducted from my home, from
[00:23:15] my work. We came with more than one guarantee. We got
[00:23:18] a release order from Political Security. How will we be released now
[00:23:20] through exchanges?" Meaning, "How do we get released as a prisoner of
[00:23:24] war?" So he would reply like this, that "you cannot
[00:23:28] be released except with a prisoner. We have
[00:23:31] many prisoners, and you must be released with prisoners."
[00:24:03] prison so that life
[00:24:06] may return to me. When my father came out of prison,
[00:24:09] life returned
[00:24:11] to me.
[00:24:17] In truth, the prisons gave us the experience that these Houthis have no
[00:24:20] values or ethics, or
[00:24:25] circumstances, possess any
[00:24:27] humanity.
[00:24:31] I appeal first to the United Nations and the Red
[00:24:35] Cross, for whom, during my entire four years of imprisonment, I did not
[00:24:38] see any role for them or even any visits to these prisons,
[00:24:41] and
[00:24:44] they did not play any role towards these
[00:24:48] cases of those inside the prison who suffered and still
[00:24:52] suffer. A letter of thanks, truly,
[00:24:55] to the organizations that are performing their role towards the abductees, and
[00:24:58] at their forefront is the Association of Mothers
[00:25:01] of Abductees and other organizations that support
[00:25:04] them, media organizations like Sada organization and other organizations that
[00:25:08] truly have an impact in conveying the suffering
[00:25:11] of the abductees. A message also
[00:25:13] to the media about the concerns of the abductees
[00:25:17] and their families and their conditions and their
[00:25:20] great suffering. So the media
[00:25:23] should continue to carry this concern and direct
[00:25:27] and convey it so that it is not forgotten
[00:25:30] amidst the current situation, so that we do not forget the abductees and their conditions.