They only allowed me to call my family three times, and the first time was after a whole year of my detention.
“Al-Thawrah” newspaper quoted Riyash, who was kidnapped and held captive by the mercenaries, as saying: “They abducted me from Al-Falaj checkpoint in Marib while I was traveling to Shabwa to find work, and I stayed in their prisons for six years without any guilt.”
I traveled between three prisons and witnessed types of torture that are beyond belief.Some of the detainees died in front of my eyes due to negligence and the lack of available treatments to combat the widespread diseases.The aggressor who targets civilians and innocent people, and extends his tyranny to them, kidnaps them, and forcibly hides them in his prisons without any crime they have committed is a coward. All religious and tribal traditions, as well as international treaties, restrict harming them, and those who do so are punished. According to the Human Rights and Freedoms Organization, which held a press conference to document the crimes and violations committed by the aggression and its mercenaries against civilian detainees since its establishment in November 2021 until May 2023, in several prisons in Marib, Hadramout, Aden, Al-Mahrah, Socotra, and Al-Mukalla, a total of six prisons in Marib and eight in Al-Mukalla and southern provinces, there are approximately 1200 abductees being held in the prisons of the aggression and its mercenaries, including expatriates, travelers, students, academics, women, and children, who were kidnapped and forcedly hidden before being tortured in various ways, most of which result in death.During its coverage of the conference, Al-Thawrah met one of the abductees, brother Tawfiq Riyash, who spent more than six years of his life in the prisons of the mercenaries without any crime or charge. He narrated to Al-Thawrah