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Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has strongly condemned the continued and systematic violations against the abducted colleagues, holding the de facto authority represented by the militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh fully responsible for their lives and calling for their immediate release and taking them to hospitals for treatment.
In a statement issued recently, YJS has stated it received identical information from different sources that the journalist Taiseer Assamiee is being tortured in a detention center in Yemen’s militia-held capital Sana’a, and that his health continues to deteriorate due to torture, adding that the other kidnapped journalists are now in poor health as well.
“Based on the same resources, the other colleague Abdul Khaliq Imran, who has been arrested since July 2015, has gotten sharp pains in the back, earache and infections in the stomach, while his fellow colleague Akram al-Waleedi has had hemorrhoids and needs surgery, and their third colleague, Haitham Shehab, has had a severe cough and chest pain”, added the statement.
Tawfik al-Mansouri has also had such severe pain in his eyes that he is no longer able to see in one eye as well as having back pains and arthritis.
As it was pointed out in the statement, the colleague Salah al-Qaedi has suffered earache and hearing disorder as a result of torture and beatings, while his fellows Essam Balgaith and Hisham al-Yousufi have had back pains, arthritis and chest pains.
The Yemeni affiliate of IJF concluded by confirming that all the kidnapped journalists are suffering from severe amoebiasis due to the very bad health situation inside detention centers, which are lacking in the most basic moral and humanitarian standards.
