Human rights activists in Yemen have reported that a prisoner died of torture inside a Houthi detention facility in Sanaa, the latest victim of Houthi abuses in jails.
According to a recent report, the Houthis kidnapped Ezzedine Al-Habji Al-Humaigani from his home village in the central region of Al-Bayda a year ago and took him to their detention center in Sanaa, where he was cruelly tortured and denied medications, which eventually led to his death.
Al-Humaigani, 28, had just recovered from wounds he sustained fighting off the Houthi offensive on Al-Bayda in early 2015 when the militia took him from his village, Al-Habj. They held him in their prison there for a while before moving him to another prison in the province of Dhamar and then to the infamous Central Security Prison in Sanaa, Yemeni activists from his tribe told Arab News.
The Houthis reportedly tortured Al-Humaigani and withheld his life-saving medications until he was pronounced dead a few days ago.
They then transferred his remains to Sanaa’s Al-Quds Hospital and published a medical report stating that his death was natural.
The Houthis tortured to death two people from Al-Bayda province earlier this year after holding them for months, sparking outrage and condemnation from human rights organizations.
Late last month, the international charity Save the Children announced the suspension of its operations in Houthi-controlled territories after one of its employees died inside a Houthi detention facility.
The charity accused the Houthis of forcibly detaining the employee and rejecting numerous requests from the organization and the worker’s family to reveal his whereabouts and provide legal justifications for the abductions.