Sa’adah conflict displaces 50,000, detainees ill-treated

Some 50,000 people have been displaced from their homes due to fighting between government troops and rebels since the northern Yemen’s Sa’adah conflict started four years ago.

More than 114 buildings, including four mosques and health centers, were transferred to military barracks, according to the Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights in their 2007 report.

“There were 79 houses were completely destroyed, and 74 houses were partially wrecked. Five mosques and eight schools were also damaged,” the report read.

Hundreds of al-Huthi supporters were arrested and have disappeared during the armed conflict which has raged on and off since June 2004 up until today.

More than 286 people have gone missing, and about 2,000 people have been arrested during the conflict.

The report adds that the detentions were taken place in Sa’adah, Sana’a, Amran, Hajja, Dhammar and Hudeidah provinces. 370 people were still in prison without legal justifications until last December.
 
According to the report, some detainees were exposed to psychological and physical torture, not to mention humiliating and inhuman treatment. Others were put in small and poorly-ventilated cells.

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