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50 officers, soldiers detained inside military jails
2012-04-13
[Yemen Post] 50 officers and soldiers of the Republican Guard have been tossed in the clink inside military jails in Sana'a due to their support to the Yemeni public revolution, military sources have said.

The Republican Guard commanded by Ahmed Ali, a son of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
who forced in February to resign after the escalation of the revolution. Ahmed Ali had ordered to arrest a number of officers and soldiers when protests broke out inside some camps of the Republican Guard.

The Yemeni Government, the Interior Ministry and the Military Committee had ordered to free all detainees who were held due to the revolution and returned those who were dismissed to their jobs.

A Yemeni human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
organization, Hood, revealed last month that hundreds of Yemenis are held in underground jails, demanded President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to swiftly release them.

Hood called Hadi to form a commission of judges, the Interior Ministry, the Human Rights Ministry and civil society organizations to release the prisoners, shut down the jails and bring those officials responsible for such violations to justice.

It further said that hundreds of protesters who took to streets against the fromer president Ali Abdullah Saleh are languishing in prisons run by the Republican Guard, the Central Security and the intelligence services.

It pointed out that it sent Hadi a letter including a list of 190 names of prisoners who their fate are still uncertain.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
the Sana'a-based Himaia Organization for Human Rights disclosed that 192 soldiers are held inside the main camp of the Central Security in Sana'a.

The group said that a specialized court documented their cases as it visited the military last week after it was ordered by the Attorney-General.

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