Selfish and dermatology spread in Houthi prisons .. Al -Jazeera Net highlights the health conditions of the detainees in Sanaa

Official correspondence between government agencies affiliated with the Houthi group in Sana'a revealed the spread of respiratory and dermatic diseases in two interests of the prisoners in light of the bad conditions experienced by the reforms in Yemen due to the conditions of the war.

Official notes obtained by Al -Jazeera Net approved between the Ministry of Interior and Health and the Presidency Foundation in the Houthi government, with 38 cases of respiratory infections, Sel, Al -Jadifiya, Al -Bazzam and Al -Sagab in the Revolutionary Reserve Prisons and Alawiya in Sanaa.

Official documents say that the story started at the end of last January when the Prison Authority addressed the leadership of the Ministry of Interior with the presence of 18 cases of tuberculosis in Alaya prison, and 20 cases in the Revolution Prison.

A infection spread and death

After that, a medical team from the tuberculosis program at the Ministry of Health descended to the two residents and stated that prisoners in the revolution's reserve suffer from respiratory infections, while prisoners in a meary reserve suffer from tuberculosis infection, colds, sore throat and chest infections, and some cases of scabies.

According to the medical team, the two residents lack medicines and a health staff, and they need to build a good ventilation place, and to adopt a health staff with medicines and medical supplies.

One of the notes from the head of the Rehabilitation and Reform Authority to the Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Interior, at the end of January, reveals a death of a prisoner in Al -Thawra prison after being transferred to the police hospital after the symptoms of tuberculosis appeared on him.

Another note of the head of the Authority in early February is that the prisoner, "NAD", who was lying in the police hospital, entered a complete coma due to the infectious tuberculosis (TB), after he lived in amber No."6" in the reserve of Alaiya prison, which makes the possibility of infection to transmit other prisoners very high.

Prisons without ventilation or medical staff

On February 23, Major General Ali Salem Al -Saifi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for the Human and Financial Resources Sector in the Houthi government, addressed Minister General Abdul Karim Amir al -Din al -Houthi in an official memorandum in which he informs that the isolation room of one of the injured in the Revolutionary Prison is close to the wards that the prisoners are being held, the matterWhich may increase the infection cases, recommending the construction of good insulation places.

The summer agent suggested the adoption of health cadres to follow up on the injured daily and take care of them, especially in the feeding aspect to raise immunity to resist viruses and bacteria.

These proposals were submitted by the Minister of the Interior to the head of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthi Group, Mahdi Al -Mashat, according to one of the notes, so that Al -Mashat directs the Ministry of Health and the Capital Secretariat to take the required measures to reduce the outbreak of diseases and epidemics between the inmates, according to another note from the presidential office at the end of last March.

These symptoms are similar to some symptoms of Corona, while documents dealt with it, such as chest infections and symptoms close to tuberculosis, especially, and spread at the end of January before the spread of the second wave of Corona in Yemen.

Health specialists believe that the symptoms of Corona are similar to some symptoms of seasonal influenza or chest infections, and that the distinction between them needs to undergo a "Coffe-19" examination, whether PCR examination, or the examination of antibodies (to detect previous injury), orExamination of the (immune) immunity of the enzyme.

This information raises the concerns of many of the families of the detainees in Yemen, especially with the brutal spread of the Corona epidemic during the past few weeks.

Lawyer Abdel -Majid Sabra - one of the lawyers who follow the conditions of detainees - says that health conditions and care services in the places of detention are very bad and do not rise to the minimum required in health services.

Detainees demanding care

Sabra confirmed that, through his follow -up to the conditions of the detainees, he was briefed on the spread of some epidemics among the detainees because they were not exposed to the sun for long periods.

His patience explains to Al -Jazeera Net that there are many cases of detainees who were disabled from the prison because of health negligence, some of them came out blind, and he cited a complaint of detainees in a trial session held on March 22, in which they demanded health care.

In that session, which Al -Jazeera Net obtained a report documenting its facts, the student of the detainee Abdulaziz Al -Hakimi, who suffers from paralysis, to provide medical care for him, while the detainee, Younis Sinan Al -Jaradi, complained of his lack of medical care two years ago, despite his request to the prison administration to provide a neurologist to treat him.

The detainee Qaboos Youssef Al -Shami explained that the prison doctor decided for him in order not to develop kidney failure, but those in charge of the prison did not allow him to do so even at his own expense, according to the lawyer Sabra.

The Prison Organization Law No. 48 of 1991 is required to department of prisons to take into account public health within the prison, treat prisoners, provide them with health and preventive care, and appoint specialized doctors in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health.

Article 24 of the law states that the instructions and observations of doctors in the health, preventive, therapeutic and food aspects of prisoners are considered to be executed for the prison administration, and if it is not possible to implement due to the lack of capabilities, they must be referred immediately to the minister to surround and direct it.

Claims to release

Lawyer Sabra confirms the necessity of release the detainees as a humanitarian aspect, especially the political detainees opposed to the Houthi group, which attributed to them fabricated charges that are not based in reality and were forced to recognize them under torture, which was the cause of many diseases that they suffer from today, he said.

His patience is afraid of severe secrecy on the Corona epidemic and the occurrence of disturbing surprises in this aspect in the absence of the Houthi group from the cases of injury to people who are outside prisons, which makes the status of the detainees surrounded by secrecy and confidentiality so that it does not face any pressure to release them, as he put it.

The government holds the Houthis responsible

For his part, the spokesperson for the legitimate government, Rajeh Badi, held the Houthi group responsible for the bad conditions of the detainees in the prisons of Sanaa, especially with the outbreaks of epidemics and the Koruna.

Badi added that the Houthi militia relied on the detention of detainees in unhealthy places and some unknown, and in arbitrary detention conditions, where censorship and the right to reach them by the relevant human rights organizations are prohibited, whether local or international.

He pointed out that many of the detainees released came out with multiple diseases due to torture or malnutrition and lack of hygiene in the places of detention and depriving them of medicine and health care.

Badi called on the International Red Cross to visit prisons, provide protection for detainees and detainees, and to provide an environment that preserves human rights and their lives in reforms and detainees.

He stressed that the tragedies of the Houthi prisons do not stop at the deterioration of the health conditions.

Badi called for the speedy release of political and civil detainees pending war, especially with the outbreak of the Korona and epidemics in light of the policy of concealment and lack of transparency that the militias take towards the spread of the Corona epidemic in their areas of control.

Houthi position

The Houthi group evaded the response to the content of the documents and was satisfied with the suggestion of efforts to improve the health situation, considering the spread of some diseases as usual due to the conditions of reforms in the conditions of war, siege and lack of capabilities.

Colonel Naguib Al -Ansi, Director of the Security Information Center at the Houthi Ministry of Interior (unrecognized), avoided the frank comment on the content of documents that reveal 38 cases of injuries between the prisoners with respiratory diseases, but he said that infectious diseases appear in prisons and disappear from time to time, and they are always controlled.

Al -Ansi considered in his talk to Al -Jazeera Net that this is the case of Yemeni prisons permanently for decades, as it was built with a limited capacity, and it was not expanded, which made it crowded with the prisoners.

He pointed out that there are efforts to improve prisons from health aspects and absorptive ability in light of the difficulties of the scarcity of capabilities and lack of resources due to war and siege.

In addition, a spokesman for the Houthi Ministry of the Houthis, Brigadier Abdel -Khaleq Al -Ajri, denied the spread of any diseases or Corona virus in prisons, and told Al -Jazeera Net that he might coincide with a patient with asthma, chest allergy or common diseases that are being employed by opponents to a different use of reality.

He pointed out that the Ministry of Interior is keen to implement all appropriate health procedures in prisons and all places of reservation as much as available, from cleanliness and checks, including isolating any suspicion and providing health care according to the agreed criteria.

On the status of the detained prisoners, Al -Ajri said that the prisoner’s file is within the jurisdiction of the Prisoners Committee, but he indicated that all of them are healthy health, and that his powers - according to high directives - are announced immediately if the health of any prisoner is valid, and it is clearly demanding that he be taken out for treatment outsideThe country, if necessary, as happened with the Saudi prisoner released earlier.

"We are seeking to exchange prisoners for humanitarian motives first, but it is the other party who impedes any understandings in this aspect."

Red Cross: ready to help

For his part, Bashir Omar, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, says that they do not have information about the details of these documents, but if the prison prisons are asked to assist, they will evaluate the situation to carry out the required intervention.

Omar explained in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net that caring for the prisoners is one of the tasks of the state and the prison authorities, and if these bodies are unable due to a shortage of capabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross provides assistance at the request of the authorities and in coordination with them.

Omar stressed that the doors of the International Committee of the Red Cross are open to all powers in various regions of Yemen, and in the event that needs appear in the places of detention, they will visit, evaluate the need and provide assistance, indicating that they usually visit prisons in coordination with the relevant authorities and intervene or treatment if necessary.