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Al-Eryani: Houthi militia's trial of released journalist, blatant violation of prisoner exchange agreement

[02/08/2024 07:12]

ADEN - SABA
The Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, Muammar al-Eryani has said the continued "theater trials" conducted by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist militia against journalists released from their prisons as part of the prisoner exchange deal brokered by the United Nations in April 2023 is a "blatant violation of the letter and spirit of the agreement."

" It is an attempt to sabotage any progress in the file of prisoners and detainees, and a new confirmation that the militia has no covenant, no charter, and no conscience."

Al-Eryani added in a press statement that the Houthi militia abducted the journalists (Abdulkhaleq Amran, Tawfiq al-Mansouri, Hareth Hamid and Akram Al-Walidi) from their workplace in June 2015, and subjected them to various forms of psychological and physical torture, and mistreatment.

The militia then put them on trial on fabricated charges and issued verdicts to execute them in April 2020, before they were eventually released in the prisoner exchange deal.

The Minister pointed out that these criminal practices are part of the Houthi militia's efforts to terrorize politicians, journalists, activists, and citizens in the areas under their control, and their insistence on escalating and placing more obstacles in the way of the sincere efforts made by the brotherly and friendly countries to calm the situation and bring peace to Yemen.

Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations, and its special envoy to Yemen to exert real pressure on the Houthi terrorist militia to respect the exchange agreements, stop the trial of all released detainees and forcibly held prisoners from their illegal prisons.

He called for stopping the militia not to use the judiciary as a tool to suppress and eliminate their opponents and terrorize society, and to immediately proceed with designating them as a "global terrorist