Musawa for Rights and Liberties said that a captured soldier died as a result of the severe torture he was subjected to in the Houthi militia prisons in Sanaa.

The organization said in a statement that it was “informed by the family of the captured soldier Muhammad Muhammad Abdullah Hassan Suleiman (36 years old), from the Jabal al-Sharq District in Dhamar Governorate, of the death of their son under torture in the central security prison of the Houthi group in Sana’a.”

The organization explained that soldier Muhammad Suleiman, who was captured on the Sarwah front on June 4, 2020, was subjected to the worst types of psychological and physical torture in his detention center, which led to the deterioration of his health and psychological condition and his loss of consciousness several times, until his family was informed of his death on Saturday. Under the pressure of this brutal torture to which he was subjected throughout his detention, he left behind a wife and four children.

The organization expressed its strong condemnation of this heinous crime, stressing that it is “not the first crime that the organization has observed in the prisons of the Houthi group, and it will not be the last,” noting that the armed Houthi group follows a systematic policy in dealing with civilian prisoners and detainees in its prisons, targeting their lives. And their physical and psychological safety without any consideration for moral and legal obligations.

Musawa expressed its deep concern about the increase and recurrence of these crimes in the prisons of the Houthi group, and called on the international community to take immediate and urgent action to protect the prisoners and detainees and ensure that those involved in these crimes are held accountable and that the perpetrators of these crimes do not escape punishment.

It stressed that these crimes constitute a flagrant violation of the Third Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which requires humane treatment and prohibits torture and abuse of all kinds, and this crime also amounts to war crimes under international human rights law.