The Yemeni authorities are investigating a torture complaint by six central security soldiers against senior officials including the former interior minister, Mutahar Al-Masri, the former chief of the central security, Abdul Malik Al-Tayyeb and chief of staff at the central security, Yahya Saleh.
Alahale net quoted one of the volunteer lawyers, who offered to defend the victims, as saying the soldiers had filed a lawsuit accusing the security officials of torturing them inside solitary confinement cells for five months as of October 2011 on suspicion of backing the popular uprising which erupted in early last year.
Lawyer Ismail Al-Dailamy said the soldiers also complained they were brutally abused inside the confinement cells, according to the website.
"I and other lawyers have volunteered to help the soldiers and have so far submitted a complaint to the chief prosecutor urging to look into the accusations of holding, torturing and using force to abuse the defendants," Al-Dailamy said.
"The complaint included and clarified constitutional texts and laws as well as medical reports over this case," he continued.
The chief prosecutor responded positively referring the case to a court in the capital Sanaa to investigate and handle it according to the law, Al-Dailamy said.
Lawyers were quoting by the website as saying crimes against human rights can't go without punishment and that the immunity given to the aides of former president under a West-backed power-transfer deal reached after the 2011 turmoil did not cover such crimes.
Former president signed the deal to relinquish power after 33 years in office in return for full immunity given to him and immunity but not including from terrorist cases for his aides.