Hundreds of Yemeni prisoners were subject to sexual abuse in southern Yemen. Some 15 UAE officers ordered Yemeni prisoners to undress and lie down for anal cavity checks, claiming they were looking for contraband mobile phones. The Yemeni prisoners who resisted were beaten until they bled, and threatened with barking dogs. Worse-off, some Yemeni prisoners were electrocuted and rocks hung from their testicles, and others were abused with steel and wooden poles. UAE forces even recorded the abuse on their mobile phones.

Hundreds of other detainees suffered similar sexual abuse earlier this year, on 10 March, at Beir Ahmed prison in Aden according to testimonies given to international media by seven witnesses.

Human Rights Watch last year also accused the UAE of running private torture chambers across Yemen, and documented 49 cases including those involving children who have been arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared in the southern regions of Aden or Hadramaut.

Please find attached the press release

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PR 0710 - Yemeni prisoners - UAE