Yemen's most prominent human rights advocacy organization has just announced that it was launching a new campaign against the government, denouncing the illegal imprisonment of protesters and their mistreatment.
According to the right organization, the Yemeni government is not only illegally detaining civilians, without charge or proofs but as well subjecting the prisoners to torture and humiliations for they dared defy president Saleh.
Hood added that according to its data an estimated 1500 men and women would have been abducted from the streets of Yemen, thrown in jail; having to endure horrible living conditions. Activists stressed that on October 18th, 2011 alone, more than 500 protesters in al-Qaa, a northern district of the capital, Sana'a had been kidnapped by the government's thugs.
The Yemeni Observatory for Human Right (YOHR) chorused the accusations when it declared that by its own findings it had established that the Yemeni government had used torture, physical violence and threats of violation to harass kidnapped protesters, hoping to instill fear in the population.
HOOD and YOHR also warned that the government was using increasingly lethal weapons against anti-regime protesters, urging the international community to take actions immediately.
Since the beginning of the uprising, Yemeni activists have on many occasions accused president Saleh of condoning torture and other violent repressive methods to quell the brewing revolt against his decades' long rule, stressing that such violations of human rights had been caught on videos many times over.
Only a month ago, the Red Cross was attacked by the regime's thugs as their staffs were trying to save the life of wounded protesters in Sana'a. Threatened and verbally abused the volunteers saw their medical equipment confiscated and were told not to operate on those opposing the regime.