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Six Yemen detainees were released late Tuesday from the secret prisons established by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) occupation in the southern province of Aden, according to officials.
The arrest operation of the forcibly disappeared persons came following more than two years of brutal torture.
More than 800 Yemeni men have been forcibly disappeared inside the UAE prisons in al-Buraiqah city in the same the province.
The Associated Press published in June alleged acts of torture perpetrated by members of the Saudi-UAE coalition in a network of at least 18 secret prisons.
According to AP, hundreds of men were rounded up and detained on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's Yemen branch (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). At the time of publication, AP said that UAE officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Al-Jazeera also obtained a report alleging that detainees in a network of clandestine prisons set up by the UAE across southern Yemen have been exposed to a host of brutal interrogation techniques that included physical and psychological torture.
The report - which was provided by Yemeni military figures who worked with the Saudi-UAE coalition battling Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries - described scenes of sexual abuse by Emirati army personnel and their Yemeni surrogates.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
