Sana'a - Saba:
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights condemned, in the strongest terms, the brutal crime committed by Saudi army soldiers against four Yemeni citizens from the Ghafra district in the Dhaher district of Saada province.
The ministry explained, in a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), that Saudi army soldiers arrested four Yemeni citizens in the Jizan region and subjected them to inhumane and humiliating torture, including direct burning and severe flogging.
The ministry indicated that citizens Yahya Mahdi Shuyan Al-Salihi and Muhammad Labis Uqbi were subjected to torture by burning, while Faris Muhammad Hassan Uqbi and Muhammad Jaber Ali Uqbi were subjected to severe flogging.
The Ministry considered this heinous crime a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian conventions, and part of a series of serious violations perpetrated by the Saudi regime against Yemeni expatriates and workers, amid shameful international silence and the clear complicity of UN organizations claiming to defend human rights.
The Ministry expressed its full solidarity with the victims and their families, holding the Saudi regime fully criminally, legally, and humanitarianly responsible for this crime and for all previous crimes committed against Yemeni citizens within its territory.
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and all international and local organizations to condemn this crime and take urgent action to open a transparent and independent international investigation to reveal the extent of the repeated violations against Yemenis inside Saudi Arabia.
The Ministry reiterated the Yemeni people's right to defend their dignity and the rights of their people by all legitimate means, and that they will not remain silent in the face of these brutal acts of aggression.
The statement called on all activists, human rights defenders, and media professionals to expose such criminal practices and shed light on the ugly face of the Saudi regime, which has transgressed all moral and legal boundaries. It noted that the torture, killing, and violations Yemenis are subjected to in Saudi Arabia fall only within the framework of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights affirmed that it will utilize all legal means to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes and document them for presentation before competent international courts.
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