A new investigation reveals the presence of clandestine prisons in the south of Yemen, run by the United Arab Emirates with the help of American interrogators.
The probe by the Associated Press found that most of the two-thousand detainees in at least 18 secret centers are people who went missing all of a sudden in the cities of Mukalla and Aden. According to witnesses, beating, flogging, sexual assault and extreme torture such as grilling have been common practices in the U-A-E-run prisons. Senior American defense officials have acknowledged that they are aware of torture allegations and that U-S forces are involved in the interrogation of detainees. The U-A-E denies all the allegations. The United Arab Emirates is an ally of Saudi Arabia and supports Riyadh in its aerial campaign against Yemen that began in 20-15.
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