Almotamar.net - Official legal report disclosed Friday the existence of more than 100 hostages inside five Yemeni prisons. Hostages kept in those prisons pursuant to directives f sheikhs and personalities over their relation to Yemenis who committed various crimes.

A report prepared by the ministry of human rights, almotamar.net received a copy of it, mentioned that some inmates of those prisons have spent more than 13 years without standing trial, clarifying
that their detention represents violation of human rights and that they have the right to fair trial leading to acquittal or condemnation.

The report strongly criticised prisons conditions that are suffering great shortage in health care services, nutrition, and medicines particularly medicines for children, let alone the limited number of medical workers.

The report indicated that the central prisons in Sana'a, Aden, Taiz, Lahj, Ibb and Thamar suffer from weakness of their buildings, shortage in repairs, overcrowded, lack of means of communicating with outside world and shortage in beddings and detergents.

On the other hand the report mentioned that despite scarcity of abilities the prisons are suffering from the people in charge there adopts good training and educating programmes. Many prisoners practice some professions such as sewing, carpentry and embroidery and some of them are enrolled in illiteracy eradication programmes to enable them learning reading and writing and recitation of Koran in addition to practicing some sport activities.

The report criticised policies of officials administering the prisons regarding the mingling the Yemeni prisoners with illegal migrants from Somalis and Eritrean that can lead to communication of infectious diseases to some local prisoners in case there are such diseases among foreign prisoners.

The report also criticised the mixing of prisoners accused of serious crimes and those of civil crimes, demanding concerned authorities to improve conditions of prisoners, raising financial allocations for prisons, releasing hostages detained without legal justifications and paying debts imposed on insolvent prisoners.