Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam
Detainees in Saber Criminal Search prison in the southern Yemeni province of Lahej have gone on hunger strike to protest about the "arbitrary arrests," the treatment, and the situation that was described as "inhumane," on Monday November, 29th, 2010.
The strikers have been arrested on November 24, they are: professor Hussein al-Akil, the activists Wadah and Fhadel al-Nakhbi, Saleh Bin Saleh, Mahmoud Mohammed Saleh, Wadah al-Halimi, and Arif al-Halimi.
Human rights sources said that the detainees are suffering inhumane conditions in a small cell filled with detainees on criminal cases and in unsanitary conditions where different insects contention the detainees in their cell, which sewage leaks out from outside, as described by the sources.
The sources added that the prosecution ordered for the release of the detainees, yesterday, but the prison administration refuses to implement the prosecution's directions.
Source: http://bit.ly/hRB9XC
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