Testimony of a Former Prisoner

Aoun was shocked by the news, and it was his chance to serve his country

better and show his torturer the difference between

a fighter and a killer.

They told me about Ammar, and I went to where he was. I went to visit him

and brought him expenses, then greeted him.

He expected that once we arrived, we would take revenge on him.

Our morals and our path are not a vengeful path or

a path of

torture or anything like that. I went to visit him, greeted him, and

even now, Ammar is still here.

What about Aoun, to you?

By God, the situation was difficult, that you

faced a person who had tortured you in every

way, through all kinds of torture.

Honestly, I was shocked.

It is neither a passing scene nor a frozen moment.

Aoun Allah Ahmed Al-Tayri is one of the members of the army

and the Popular Committees, from Yarim in Ibb Governorate.

He spent four years of his life in prison cells

run by the killing and looting groups of the aggression’s mercenaries in

Taiz. Four years filled

with every kind of torture.

I arrived in Taiz before

May 2015.

The method of torture was torment, every kind of torment.

They tortured us to the utmost degree for a year, while we were under torture.

A year later, they transferred us to

Ammar.

Ammar started beating and torturing us. He beat me

until he broke my leg. After he broke my leg, a month

went by with it broken, bone separated from bone.

He kept beating and torturing us. He trained us from morning,

after dawn prayers, until 9:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m.

He made us stand, forbidden to lean our backs against the wall or

stretch, from dawn prayers until after the evening prayers.

Awn was freed from captivity, and time swiftly passed.

Tomorrow, Awn’s jailer became a captive in the hands of the Army’s Knights

and the committees. The captive jailer found what he, too,

had not expected: good treatment,

despite expecting, at the very least,

the same treatment in return.

I mean, I expected him, at the very least, to take our friend out and beat him. At the very least,

I mean.

For the torture.

For the torture that he and his colleagues inflicted on us.

I entered

the Public Prosecution Office in Taiz Governorate

and sent a message

to all the fighters fighting in the ranks of the aggressors, especially the Islah

Party.

They should not make any decisions on their own or carry out any

of the directives they carry out inside the prisons.

Today, the executioner is captive. Tomorrow, the tortured prisoner is the jailer.

But despite his changed position, he is human.

His Qur'anic upbringing guides him

and deters him from taking revenge.

We call on Yemenis who have prisoners

in their custody to treat them accordingly

with the values of Islam, the Qur'an, and faith.

If they lack Islamic morals, then at least

they should remember that they are Yemenis, with Yemeni morals, values, and customs.

If they neither heed nor incline toward

Islam. This only indicates...

The Islah Party's misinformation, the intense political

policies aligned with America and Israel, and the policies

pursued by America and Israel are behind these events, and they raise

these people to carry out these events.

The proof is, look at this person, who

worked, I mean, at one of the prisoner detention centers and is one of

the cadres of the Islah Party

in

Taiz Governorate.

While the mercenaries of the aggression commit criminal

acts, including killing and torturing prisoners of the army and the Popular Committees

Here, in the area of the Army Heroes and the Popular Committees, we do not

respond in kind, but rather with human values

and Qur'anic morals.

Sharaf al-Din al-Rahbi, Al-Masirah, Dhamar.