Sana'a (Debriefer) - Two Yemeni rights groups on Tuesday accused the Houthi group of forcibly disappearing and torturing tens of civilians, four of whom have been tortured to death.
Sadiq Ahmed Yahiya al-Ghawi (37) who was abducted by Houthis, died after torture in prison, abductee mothers league (AML) said in a statement, adding that 8 members of his family were disappeared, and still unaccounted for.
"Al-Ghawi and his relatives were disappeared until 16 September, when information leaked to his family that he was in the Military Police Hospital's morgue in Sana'a City," the statement read.
The family found marks of torture on their son's body and of strangling rope on his neck, so they refused to receive the body until his death's causes and the fate of other relatives are unveiled, it added.
AML said they have information that 82 abductees in Houthi jails were tortured to death during 2015 to 2020.
According to separate statement issued by SAM organization for rights and freedoms, Ghawi died on 26 June at a Houthi prison in Sana'a and Mohamed Abdullah Muhsin died on 31 August at another Houthi jail in Hajjah.
From 30 April to 20 May 2020, the Houthis arrested more than ten people from their houses in Sa'ada governorate for unknown reasons, SAM statement added.
Moreover, Hamad Tahir Ahmed Jamil died of torture at Houthi jail in the Taiz-based al-Saleh city in March 2020, two week after his arrest, and Ahmed Mohamed al-Sahaqi died in August 2020 at Houthi prison in Dhamar, it said.
SAM called for international probe be made into the "systematic torture crimes in Houthi jails, and those responsible for these crimes be brought to justice, so that criminals could not continually escape punishment."
Yemen has been racked by an armed conflict that broke out after the Iranian-backed Houthis had ousted the internationally-recognized government late in 2014.
The conflict escalated after a Saudi-led coalition intervened militarily in the country in March 2015 to reinstate the government of President Hadi.
