The Houthi militia - Iran's arm in Yemen, has refused for days to allow the family of Judge Abdul Wahab Qatran and human rights activists to visit him in the intelligence prison where he has been detained since last January due to human rights media publications condemning human rights violations.

A number of human rights activists explained that the Houthi militias refuse to allow Qatran’s family to visit him in his prison after announcing a few days ago that they would be allowed to visit. Pointing out that the family is in the process of publishing an explanatory statement regarding the inhumane treatment it has practiced against the judge who has been illegally detained for more than a month on fabricated charges in retaliation for his opinions that he published on his social media pages.

The militias also refused to allow a number of human rights activists, led by Member of Parliament Ahmed Saif Hashid - Vice Chairman of the Rights and Freedoms Committee in the House of Representatives, to conduct an official visit to Judge Qatran in his prison, and to check on his health and the situation he has reached as a result of his detention in violation of the laws without... No charges.

A number of human rights activists pointed out that the Houthi militias’ continued denial of visits to Judge Qatran and checking on his health raises many questions about the situation he has reached since his detention in a solitary confinement cell in the intelligence prison.

A human rights statement published on the pages of a number of activists in Sanaa condemned the prevention of parliamentarian Ahmed Saif Hashid from visiting Judge Abdul Wahab Qatran, who is unjustly and aggressively detained in the Political Security prison in Sanaa. The statement indicated that the parliamentarian and deputy head of the Freedoms Committee in the House of Representatives practices his work in visiting detainees, and at the core of his work is visiting detainees and finding out how to deal with them and the extent to which the prisoner’s rights stipulated in the constitution, law and international covenants are implemented.

Human rights sources spoke about acts of physical and psychological torture that Judge Abdel-Wahab Qatran was subjected to inside the intelligence prison, explaining that the “word I am dead” that the judge said in his first call to his family members revealed much of the violations and torture he was subjected to.