The “People of Aden” platform raised the case of the teacher who was assaulted by his students in a secondary school in Dar Saad District, north of the city of Aden (south of Yemen), in the middle of last February.

The platform published a visual story by teacher Nabil Youssef, the English language teacher at Al-Ahdal Secondary School, as part of the “Nasna” series of stories that the platform recently began producing during the holy month of Ramadan.

During his exclusive conversation with the platform, the teacher was unable to hide his feelings of oppression, after he was forced to accept the “formal” apology offered to him by the students who attacked him in the schoolyard, in the presence of the General Director of Dar Saad Directorate.

Professor Nabil said that the video showing the assault on him did not spread on social media platforms until eight days after the incident occurred, during which he was subjected to investigation, accountability, and psychological pressure, even though he was the one attacked.

He added that because of all this, he entered an unenviable psychological state, from which it was difficult to emerge, as he described it, and he went so far as to hide the details of the attack from his family and those close to him, to the point that he was unable to see the video after it spread.

But he added that publishing the video was “justice for him and a fulfillment of the rights of the teacher who is still suffering from oppression in this country.”

Professor Nabil described the incident figuratively as “painful” when he said, “I was washed with my blood, but God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs,” pointing out that he had no longer tolerated going to high school, and his going there had become slow after spending long hours there, as he put it.

He also spoke on behalf of the teachers about the miserable living situation of the teacher, whose salary does not exceed 90 thousand Yemeni riyals, and that this salary does not befit the position of the teacher, and he described what education has reached as “passing the stage of decadence.”

Despite what he was exposed to, Mr. Nabil called on all teachers to be patient and be proud of their honorable profession and their noble mission, despite all the circumstances they face, and he concluded by saying: “God, God is the teacher.”

It is noteworthy that the incident of the attack on the teacher, Nabil Youssef, received widespread sympathy in the local community in Aden, and became an issue of public opinion, in which activists and citizens expressed their indignation at the situation that the teacher had reached in the country.