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The Houthi militia is brutally torturing the kidnapped journalist Taiseer Assamiee who was abducted by Houthi militiamen on January 2 from his hometown in Khadir district of Taiz province.
Sources close to the journalist’s family said that Taiseer is being subjected to electric shocks, along with another detainee called Mohammed al-Sabri from the same province.
Assamiee has been quoted as saying that he is severely tortured, electrocuted and continuously beaten in prisons of the Houthi militia and Saleh forces.
The sources added that the Iran-backed militias have prevented his family from visiting or telephoning him, confirming that he is subjected to severe psychological torture.
Houthi militiamen had arrested the journalist Assamiee on January 2 as he was passing towards the market of the district of Khadir to the southeast of Taiz province, and was taken to an unknown destination.
Hisham al-Jaradi, an activist and journalist, wrote on his Facebook page that he had received a telephone call from journalist Taiseer Assamiee and engineer Mohammed al-Sabri and that they reported being subjected to severe electric shocks and beatings in their detention.
Al-Jaradi explained that Taiseer informed told him that he was transferred from Assaleh prison to Dhamar prison as a prisoner of war, while his fellow Mohammed al-Sabri may be released in a prisoner exchange deal the Houthi militia wants to make with the Popular Resistance.
"I am completely exhausted and have a slow death. They have considered me a prisoner of war while they know I spent two years with my mother who needed medical treatment,” Assamiee was quoted as saying by al-Jaradi."
