12 year old hostage in prison
Hood concerns About Detaining al-Salihi Juvanile along with three others:
Tuesday 09 September 2008 / HoodonlineHood has informed that a 12-year juvenile of al-Salihi family was apprehended along with three of his relatives for more than a month and a half at Moa’en security directorate prison in the Capital.
These four prisoners are the juvenile Bakeel al-Salihi,12, Hussien Saleh al-Salihi,18, Mohammed ,21,and Ali Ahmed al-Salihi who are still under arrest until this writing.
They are kept in prison as hostages with no clear charges pressed against them. It became obvious later on that the detention was on the grounds of tribal dispute in M’arib-Yemen, which these four men play no part in it.
After receiving a complaint from the detainees’ relatives, the prosecution of the capital west-circuit visited the detention scene and proved the illegal condition of the detention. The prosecution also noted that the Police Station director scoffed at Law offering an excuse of receiving a high order from the Interior ministry.
Hood says, addressing the interior ministry, that the hostage system is supposed to be vanished since the blessing Sep26th Revolution. As Hood also alerts the Interior Minister of being drifted towards the rejected tribal practices and shifted to be a brigand entity Kidnapping and arresting people as hostages.
Therefore, Hood considers this detention illegal and egregious violation in human rights and calls the Interior Ministry and the Attorney-General, in two letters each, for the urgent release and the prosecution of those responsible.
