Updated – The Bahraini citizen Husain Abdulla Mohamed (Juma’a) was arbitrarily arrested from his home when he was 20 years old. He w
as subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, medical neglect, and an unfair trial during his detention. He is currently serving a life sentence in what was known as the “Zulfiqar Brigades” case, in which he was among those for whom anopinion was issued by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, demanding his release. Currently, he is detained at Jau Prison.
On 10 November 2015 at 2:30 am, about 20 riot police officers, along with other officers from the Ministry of Interior (MoI), raided Husain’s home. They searched the house and arrested him without presenting arrest or search warrants. The officers then transferred Husain to the MoI’s Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) for interrogation, where he was able to contact his family to tell them about his whereabouts, but the call was cut off a few seconds after it began. After this call, Husain forcibly disappeared from his family for a month, and his news was cut. He was detained at the CID for two months, during which the authorities subjected him to physical and psychological torture.
Saudi Arabia pursues Mass Killings across the Gulf of Aden: Calling for Accountability
On the 21st of August, 2023, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on the mass killings of Ethiopians at the Yemen-Saudi border. The research indicates that the indiscriminate use of force by Saudi authorities started in March 2022 and is still ongoing. This crisis is of the utmost importance as, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), tens of thousands of people use this route to travel from the Horn of Africa.
The perils for Ethiopian migrants start at the sea crossing. BBC reports that 24 migrants have been missing in only one week after a shipwrecking. However, the dangers become more severe at the transit routes of Al Jawf and Sa‘dah, where Saudi Arabian forces systematically and indiscriminately use force. The claims made by experts on the ground on the violations committed by Saudi Arabian authorities are appalling. Border forces are responsible for shelling people, arbitrarily detaining them, forcing rapes and abusing them.
