Kidnapped and forcibly disappeared.. The Transitional Council’s crime in Aden under government cover

She added in an interview with "Yemeni Youth Net", "The case of the kidnapped Major Ali Ashal revealed the truth, and perhaps it will be the beginning of knowing the fate of the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Transitional Council."

Ismail called on the Transitional Council to reveal the fate of the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared, to end the tension and congestion that has provoked the people to go out in demonstrations and protests to search for the fate of their children.

For her part, the head of the Association of Mothers of Abductees, Amat Al-Salam Al-Hajj, said, “The Ashal case and other similar cases that have come to the surface are nothing but an addition to the cases of enforced disappearance in the prisons of the Transitional Council.”

Al-Hajj said, in an interview with "Yemeni Youth Net", "If Ashal's case is revealed, the cases of the rest of those forcibly disappeared in the Transitional Council's prisons will also be revealed."

Years of suffering

Coinciding with the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which falls on August 30 of each year, there are still dozens of people forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Transitional Council, and their families do not know anything about them.

According to the Association of Mothers of Abductees, there are 62 forcibly disappeared persons and 12 arbitrarily detained persons from the southern governorates in the prisons of the Security Belt Forces affiliated with the Transitional Council, including the forcible disappearance of Colonel Ashal, who was kidnapped on June 12.

The head of the Association of Mothers of Abductees, Umma Al-Salam Al-Hajj, said that the mothers of the abducted and forcibly disappeared have been searching for their sons for five years, at the doors of prisons, the doors of the Transitional Council, and the doors of Maashiq Palace (where the government is headquartered).

Al-Hajj added to Yemen Youth Net, "When pressure is put on some influential people in the Transitional Council, to demand the disclosure of the fate of the disappeared, they say that they no longer have them and have been transferred to the Emirates. This is what these officials who are in Aden say, quite frankly."

Regionalism and suppression of protests

Regionalism is one of the complex problems that has led to the escalation of kidnappings and enforced disappearances over the past years. Anis Al-Sharik, head of the Al-Rasid Foundation for Human Rights, said, “The capital, Aden, and the Lahj governorate suffer from regional control over the security and military sector and the absence of national balance.”

He added - in a post on his Facebook page - "We find illegal arrests, violations and enforced disappearances in Aden targeting citizens from specific regions and cities. These practices, arrests and violations are defended in a regional manner."

The partner, the Southern Transitional Council, called for assuming moral responsibility in protecting citizens, youth and opinion makers. He said, "It is illogical to sit in the protection of Aden and prevent community events, seminars and peaceful demonstrations under the pretext of protecting Aden, while protecting those who practice arbitrary arrests, disappearances and violations."

On August 15, the Southern Transitional Council announced the ban on any political activities , threatened to stop them, and described any political action as harming the security of the south, in a move that politicians considered a declaration of the comprehensive exclusion of any component outside the framework of the council supported by the UAE.

For her part, activist Raja Ismail said: “Peaceful protests demanding human rights, which are legal, are being rejected and suppressed. Not only that, but malicious charges have been fabricated against them to prevent them from demanding their rights and searching for the fate of their kidnapped and forcibly disappeared children.”

She called on the competent authorities and the de facto authority controlling Aden and the south in general to reveal the truth and hold every criminal accountable for his crime according to the law, regardless of his position.

The former Minister of Education, Abdullah Lamlas, had previously accused the Transitional Council of being "a totalitarian, exclusionary and dictatorial component, and will not allow the activities and events of any political or social component in the southern arena unless it is signed by them on their national charter."