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The AP documented at least 18 clandestine lockups across southern Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates or by Yemeni forces created and trained by the Gulf nation, drawing on accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials. All are either hidden or off limits to Yemen’s government, which has been getting Emirati help in its civil war with rebels over the last two years.

The secret prisons are inside military bases, ports, an airport, private villas and even a nightclub. Some detainees have been flown to an Emirati base across the Red Sea in Eritrea, according to Yemen Interior Minister Hussein Arab and others.

Several U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the topic, told AP that American forces do participate in interrogations of detainees at locations in Yemen, provide questions for others to ask, and receive transcripts of interrogations from Emirati allies. They said U.S. senior military leaders were aware of allegations of torture at the prisons in Yemen, looked into them, but were satisfied that there had not been any abuse when U.S. forces were present.

Inside war-torn Yemen, however, lawyers and families say nearly 2,000 men have disappeared into the clandestine prisons, a number so high that it has triggered near-weekly protests among families seeking information about missing sons, brothers and fathers.

“We could hear the screams,” said a former detainee held for six months at Riyan airport. “The entire place is gripped by fear. Almost everyone is sick, the rest are near death. Anyone who complains heads directly to the torture chamber.” He was flogged with wires, part of the frequent beatings inflicted by guards against all the detainees. He also said he was inside a metal shipping container when the guards lit a fire underneath to fill it with smoke.

More here

https://apnews.com/4925f7f0fa654853...-detainees-in-Yemen-prisons-rife-with-torture

Lock if old

 

[Muffin1611]

When will the time come that the US asks itself a simple question:

 

[Ovid]

Jesus.

I'm surprised after what happened in Abu Ghraib. America has been using these black sites since 9/11.

 

[Angelus Errare]

This is TOTES gonna stop terrorism

 

[emag]

This is TOTES gonna stop terrorism

There isn't even the pretense of fighting terrorism here. The Arab "brotherhood" (and the US) are fighting against the Houthi population that rebelled against the government that was starving them to death. Iran is supporting the Houthis, so it's another proxy war.

 

[Kolx]

looked into them, but were satisfied that there had not been any abuse when U.S. forces were present.

Oh so it's ok then?