The Abductees Mothers Association – Aden met this morning with the Undersecretary of Aden Governorate for Security and Defense, Brigadier Abdulaziz Al-Mansouri, during a protest held in front of the governorate building in the Al-Mualla district. The protest called for the disclosure of the fate of those forcibly disappeared for nearly ten years and for their immediate release.
During the meeting, the Abductees Mothers Association submitted a list of forcibly disappeared individuals documented by the Association and stressed the need for serious and urgent action by the relevant authorities to uncover their fate, secure their release, end their suffering, and reunite them with their loved ones.
Brigadier Al-Mansouri listened to the Association’s demands and to the appeals of the families of the forcibly disappeared, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing the abductees and forcibly disappeared file during the current phase and within the ongoing Southern Dialogue Conference. He also underscored the need to end the existence of secret prisons as a step toward achieving political and security stability.
The Association affirmed that the secret prisons established in recent years, previously under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, constitute one of the most serious patterns of human rights violations. The Association further stressed the legal and moral responsibility now borne by the state, following the consolidation of its political and security control over the city of Aden, to take urgent and concrete steps to resolve the abductees’ file, deliver justice to victims and their families, hold perpetrators accountable, and ensure that such crimes are not repeated in the future.
