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00:00:02in charge would come to me once
00:00:03at night and once
00:00:17he refused. One of
00:00:33Perhaps three days after a collective cell, we became in
00:00:34At that time, for me in prison,
00:00:42slept at night and 14 slept during
00:00:48I entered
00:00:52The first 45 days I spent
00:01:30They took me down after that. A day after
00:01:46I left the house, I was waiting for my wife to come out with
00:01:50the children. I was surprised by a civilian
00:01:54as I told you, of car with five
00:01:56armed men. I knew some of them. They worked with
00:02:00the Houthi supervisor in the Mathbah area. I was taken immediately.
00:02:04My eyes were tied with
00:02:07to make an effort. We actually reached the well-known headscarf or the Yemeni
00:02:09one. They tied my eyes and took me
00:02:13immediately. I discovered that they did not go to the Mathbah
00:02:17slapping, and hitting police station. It was as if they took me to an open area. I estimate this because my eyes
00:02:20were blindfolded. From 10 AM to
00:02:25and 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.
00:02:28eyes closed and don't know what was written in This is what I understood.
00:02:31I don't know what was wanted.
00:02:34It was a moment of silence.
00:02:36After that, they immediately drove the car
00:02:40and took me away. I discovered that they took me to
00:02:43Al-Judairi police station in the western region of the capital secretariat.
00:03:01They immediately put me in solitary confinement in the area,
00:03:03and I remained there for approximately six days.
00:03:13Take my father out of
00:03:35perhaps, in any
00:03:37atom of
00:03:42And a new suffering began in
00:03:50Of course, due to my specialization, I study Sharia and law, and I completed my studies in Sharia
00:03:53and law.
00:03:56I asked them to go to
00:03:58abductees, along with many the prosecution. Is there a complaint against me? What is required? I was surprised.
00:04:02Approximately on the fifth of Ramadan, exactly a Wednesday,
00:04:05they took me out in the afternoon to a Hilux and blindfolded
00:04:09me. It was between Asr
00:04:13and Maghrib prayers. We were preparing for the Iftar meal.
00:04:17I was trying to prepare myself
00:04:19for Iftar. They took me
00:04:22The torturers tortured them outside in directly for about two to three
00:04:25hours. My eyes
00:04:29were covered. I don't know exactly where they took
00:04:33sometimes lasting for hours in this me, but I later discovered a visit. that I was taken to
00:04:38he 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
00:04:411 AM. The time was
00:04:43like that.
00:04:46In this place, I couldn't hear anyone. No one
00:04:50outer corridor. He reached came to me. I tried to knock on the door.
00:04:54I yelled, I spoke, but there was
00:04:58no one.
00:05:06him?" Because visits in two weeks old. Could you just bring him
00:05:12The summoning and interrogation began. They took me out immediately,
00:05:16and of course, my eyes were blindfolded. The interrogation
00:05:19with me continued from 12 AM to 4 AM.
00:05:23The entire interrogation was conducted while I was suspended and my eyes
00:05:26were tied with a
00:05:30very tight nylon rope, so
00:05:33much so that my ears and eyes swelled.
00:05:36And with the long period of suspension, 13
00:05:40days, my entire body also swelled. There was no movement.
00:05:46the suspension, I fell into a coma. I didn't feel I was
00:05:50there.
00:05:56There were questions that I really couldn't deal
00:06:00with, or how one could answer them.
00:06:05in interrogation, sometimes they would ask me only one question per
00:06:09night. This means
00:06:11that they were, and I would ask the interrogator, "Why? What exactly
00:06:15do you want from me?"
00:06:16As the interrogator said,
00:06:23"We are required to kill
00:06:27you, and you will die hanging." That's what he used to tell me.
00:06:43being suspended, I fell directly to the ground for approximately
00:06:45two weeks.
00:06:52Of course, I stopped speaking during this period because I couldn't
00:06:56speak anymore. I also stopped eating because
00:06:59I couldn't eat at all. So I only consumed water during
00:07:02this stage,
00:07:05so much so that I felt at this stage as if I was dying, or that death was
00:07:08the only means by which I was living at this stage.
00:07:14I was summoned by an investigation officer who told me, "You
00:07:17have nothing against you. Therefore, write
00:07:20a letter to whom it may concern, stating that
00:07:24you are to be released." After I wrote the paper
00:07:27and appealed for my release, they told me, "Okay, the order
00:07:31for your release has been issued." A small bus owner came.
00:07:34Of course, my eyes were blindfolded,
00:07:37your release!" They took me directly to
00:07:40the political security prison.
00:08:55the political security prison: electric shocks and torture with electricity,
00:08:58and bringing pots of water, and putting
00:09:02electricity in
00:09:03them.
00:09:39Among the methods of torture used by the Houthis, also, regarding
00:09:43my fingernails and wrists, with many colleagues, among the methods
00:09:48the head, and two of my colleagues suffered paralysis
00:09:52from it. My colleague Anas Al-Sarari is still paralyzed,
00:09:55and you have heard a lot about him in the media. My colleague Abdul Aziz
00:09:59Al-Hakimi is still paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair in prison now.
00:10:02The
00:10:05most severe method of torture practiced against
00:10:08abductees, for me, I felt the house I was transferred
00:10:12to was almost next to Al-Sawad camp, which is the Republican
00:10:16Guard camp, the well-known camp. And I used to hear airstrikes
00:10:19continuously. And the one
00:10:21in charge of the prison or the two
00:10:28during the day. I used to ask them, "Why? Where are you going? Why
00:10:31am I left alone in this place?" They said, "The place
00:10:34is targeted by airstrikes, so we leave,
00:10:38and we cannot stay in this place because it might be hit by airstrikes
00:10:41at any time." And I used to hear the strikes very
00:10:45close indeed to the place, and the message was clear.
00:10:49When
00:10:51I was transferred from solitary confinement to
00:10:55a collective cell that was approximately four by six,
00:10:58with 28 prisoners inside. We were there,
00:11:02we took turns sleeping. We divided it into 12, meaning 14
00:11:07the day because there was no place to sleep inside
00:11:10the cell. In light of this overcrowding,
00:11:13skin diseases spread widely, and we suffered greatly from them,
00:11:17and I still suffer from them until now. For me,
00:11:20it spread, such
00:11:24as lice and other things,
00:11:27also due to the lack of water and ventilation inside the cell itself.
00:11:31The cell is dark, of course. If the electricity goes out, the cell is dark
00:11:34constantly, day and night. After a year and a month,
00:11:38maybe two months of imprisonment, I went out to the sun once and suffered from blindness.
00:11:42I couldn't look, meaning I couldn't see the sky.
00:12:02During the summoning, you are summoned with your eyes blindfolded,
00:12:05and you are interrogated while suspended and blindfolded.
00:12:08Therefore, you cannot recognize anyone inside the
00:12:12prison.
00:12:14But there are names inside the prison,
00:12:19those responsible for torture during the interrogation: this is Yahya
00:12:22Sarea.
00:12:30This person is, of course, a
00:12:33criminal, barbaric in a way that no one can imagine. He
00:12:37attends during the interrogation and carries out torture, beating,
00:12:42the testicles during the interrogation by these
00:12:46interrogators.
00:13:55On Eid al-Adha,
00:13:58Al-Hassan Al-Sarari himself fell ill with us and went into a coma that lasted
00:14:02for perhaps two hours. We for our part,
00:14:06thought he might have died.
00:14:09So we started knocking
00:14:11on the door. The prison director at
00:14:15that time came immediately with approximately 15
00:14:18torturers with their electric batons, electric
00:14:22rods. They immediately entered, asking, "Why are you knocking on the door?" We said, "Someone
00:14:25is dead."
00:14:27He said, "What's it to you? Even if he dies, don't interfere."
00:14:31So we said, "Okay, at least let's knock on the door." He said, "Who knocked on the door?"
00:14:34We told him, "All of us knocked on the door."
00:14:38There were three of those present who said, "Not all of us
00:14:41knocked on the door. I, so-and-so, and so-and-so knocked on the door." He said, "Get out!"
00:14:47the sun, flogging them. At this time, all the cells
00:14:50were watching and listening. You could hear what was happening: torture, suspension,
00:14:54and screaming. And screaming,
00:14:58place. So
00:15:03one in a coma, I'll show you what I'll do." And he started dragging
00:15:07him. They dragged him directly
00:15:11in front of us. and took him to the
00:15:15the outer corridor and remained there for approximately the time after Isha
00:15:19until before Fajr. Then they dragged him
00:15:22again and brought him back to us. He entered.
00:15:26have woken up and so on. He was sitting, but he didn't recognize anyone.
00:15:29Dust was on his face and
00:15:33body because they dragged him away. A little
00:15:36later,
00:15:45they took him to the outer corridor and threw him there. And after they saw
00:15:48him starting to wake up, they immediately brought him back and dragged him to
00:15:50prison.
00:15:53One day, I was summoned on the pretext of having
00:15:57a visit. It was the first visit.
00:15:59They took me out directly,
00:16:02and I was
00:16:06then, when he took me out, he said, "You might have a visit." I told him, "But
00:16:09I haven't cut my hair for a year and two months. My children, the first time they see
00:16:13me, will say that their father has gone mad or something."
00:16:16He said, "Okay, we'll cut your hair." They cut my hair
00:16:20and gave me a jacket to wear, and immediately took me to a room.
00:16:26the room and was surprised.
00:16:28I was, of course, blindfolded. They immediately sat me on a chair. I sat
00:16:32down, and they opened my eyes. I looked around and saw approximately
00:16:35seven photographers and seven
00:17:03I was surprised. I spoke to someone next to me.
00:17:06He said, "Look, you have a visit now,
00:17:09and your family has been waiting for you for a year
00:17:13and two months. Take this paper and sign it quickly so you can go on a visit."
00:17:38I saw the paper, and it was written in it that I was
00:17:41a military leader and I belonged to cells working in the military
00:17:45aspect, and that those who were following these cells, meaning he wrote
00:17:48a group of names for me, and these names carried out the assassination
00:17:52of so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so.
00:17:55Of course, I told him, "I can, if you want me to read it to you, read
00:17:59what is in my file. I have no problem
00:18:02even if I sign it with my
00:18:06the file, but I will read to you from the file. I haven't heard about this, nor do
00:18:09I know about it, and I cannot say it." He said, "Then you
00:18:13cannot visit, and you cannot get any visit if you do not
00:18:17talk about these things." And he left
00:18:19immediately, saying, "I will bring you Yahya Sarea to show you what to do."
00:18:23Of course, some journalists spoke to him and said, "Maybe
00:18:26you can give him his file and so on." He said, "Okay, stop filming with him,
00:18:30and I will deny his name, and I
00:18:32am watching him, and he will come back and talk about everything." This is
00:18:36just a denial.
00:19:15My family at this stage realized that I was
00:19:18finished. Of course, they went to the United Nations, they went to the Red
00:19:21Cross, they appealed. With every visit the UN
00:19:25envoy made to Sana'a, my family appealed to him in
00:19:28their meeting. They did not leave any security agency, National Security,
00:19:32Political Security, Investigation, they did not leave any agency or department
00:19:36without going to search for me, even the houses that were known
00:19:39as places of detention and disappearance, such as Ali Mohsen's house, Hamid
00:19:42al-Ahmar's house. They went searching but could not find me anywhere. Therefore,
00:19:46my family had completely despaired,
00:19:48my wife
00:19:55and children. I was summoned again.
00:19:58They said, "Okay, speak to the media and introduce
00:20:01yourself. Whatever you want to say." I introduced myself,
00:20:04and I was allowed
00:20:08Visiting them in
00:20:10prison. The luckiest ones
00:20:14in prison. I had a child born during my detention. He was two
00:20:18weeks old.
00:20:19Al-Zubair.
00:20:22I was surprised, of course, after a year and two or four
00:20:25months, the first time I saw him, I asked
00:20:29the prison supervisor at that time, who is also a person
00:20:33named Othman in prison, I told him, "Of course, this
00:20:37is my son. I was arrested when he was
00:20:40through the window so I can see
00:20:44prison are a kind of suffering. There is approximately
00:20:47a 4-meter distance between you and
00:20:50your family. And you have a window barrier,
00:20:53and they have another window barrier, so you can't even see them through the window
00:20:57due to the distance, and at the same time, the window
00:21:00is on your side and their side. So I asked
00:21:03him,
00:21:07the others saw the children crying and so on,
00:21:10he reacted and said, "Maybe we can bring the child from here."
00:21:12While they were trying to bring him through the window, he immediately
00:21:16took him like this, took him from their hands and said, "Send him back, he can't
00:21:20enter." And so on.
00:21:24there was nothing that one could worry about
00:21:28more than what I had already suffered. So I raised my voice
00:21:31and yelled at him
00:21:34and spoke.
00:21:37He said, "Okay, for you, this is the last visit, and you cannot visit after
00:21:40that."
00:22:18They summoned me on the basis that I was released.
00:22:21And I signed a consent form and goodbye.
00:22:24I went out, they blindfolded me and took me in
00:22:27a Hilux. Someone called Abu Turab,
00:22:30as they called him, carried me in a Hilux and took me directly to
00:22:34a house. And a new suffering began.
00:22:38I discovered during this stage that they had hidden
00:22:41me as a bargaining chip, that I would not be released except through
00:22:44exchanges. But how could this happen? It had to
00:22:47be kept secret, so that his family
00:22:50and relatives would follow up and pressure some sheikhs,
00:22:54the mediators who were trying
00:22:57the final point that we could not be released except
00:23:00through an exchange. We tried to talk to their
00:23:03committee head who used to come to us, who is Abu
00:23:06Hilal
00:23:07Al-Murtada. We talked to him
00:23:11and explained to him, "I was abducted from my home, from
00:23:15my work. We came with more than one guarantee. We got
00:23:18a release order from Political Security. How will we be released now
00:23:20through exchanges?" Meaning, "How do we get released as a prisoner of
00:23:24war?" So he would reply like this, that "you cannot
00:23:28be released except with a prisoner. We have
00:23:31many prisoners, and you must be released with prisoners."
00:24:03prison so that life
00:24:06may return to me. When my father came out of prison,
00:24:09life returned
00:24:11to me.
00:24:17In truth, the prisons gave us the experience that these Houthis have no
00:24:20values or ethics, or
00:24:25circumstances, possess any
00:24:27humanity.
00:24:31I appeal first to the United Nations and the Red
00:24:35Cross, for whom, during my entire four years of imprisonment, I did not
00:24:38see any role for them or even any visits to these prisons,
00:24:41and
00:24:44they did not play any role towards these
00:24:48cases of those inside the prison who suffered and still
00:24:52suffer. A letter of thanks, truly,
00:24:55to the organizations that are performing their role towards the abductees, and
00:24:58at their forefront is the Association of Mothers
00:25:01of Abductees and other organizations that support
00:25:04them, media organizations like Sada organization and other organizations that
00:25:08truly have an impact in conveying the suffering
00:25:11of the abductees. A message also
00:25:13to the media about the concerns of the abductees
00:25:17and their families and their conditions and their
00:25:20great suffering. So the media
00:25:23should continue to carry this concern and direct
00:25:27and convey it so that it is not forgotten
00:25:30amidst the current situation, so that we do not forget the abductees and their conditions.