Almotamar.net - Yemeni Human Rights Ministry dispatched Wednesday a memorandum to the general prosecutor demanding the release of 40 prisoners from the Central Prison in Sana'a. Those prisoners have been detained as hostages under orders of sheiks and influential personalities.
A source at the ministry told almotamar.net that disclosure of hostage prisoners came during a visit to the Central Prison last week made by the Minister for Human Rights Huda Al-Ban and jurists from the ministry for the purpose of seeing conditions of prisoners, the source pointed out that the visit disclosed the presence of 40 prisoners retained as hostages by sheikhs and 30 of them have been detained under requests by sheikh in Yemen over their relatives' commitment of killing crimes, vengeance and other cases.
The source clarified that some prisoners have been held for more than ten years and have not been tried until now. He said the Human Rights Ministry asked last week to meet the general prosecutor to discuss cases of prison inmates imprisoned by illegal ways and to release them in addition to solving problems of insolvent prisoners. But the meeting was postponed to this week, the source said.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.