A human rights report highlighted on Monday the Houthi abuses of prisoners illegally detained in areas under the militia control in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, in the southwest of the country. A report issued by the Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization SAM revealed the maltreatments of detainees in the Saleh city prison, which has been recently renovated by the militias when they controlled parts of the Taiz governorate, Aden, Lahij, Abyan and Dhaleh early in 2015. The “Saleh Prison” was named relatively to a residential city that was under construction when Houthis controlled parts of its buildings to detain and abuse individuals. The militia also used parts of the prison to store weapons and military equipment. Large areas surrounding the prison were also employed to launch missiles against Taiz. SAM said that it received the names of several investigators who are abusing and mistreating detainees in the Saleh Prison and the names of those who helped or covered the arbitrarily detaining of individuals. The report also revealed that Houthis were using several measures to physically and mentally torture detainees. This includes electric shocks, beating and the so-called “grill method,” which relies on the suspension of the body over a steel tool attached on two wedges. SAM said militias were injecting acid into the skin of detainees to cause immense pain. Meanwhile, the Association of Yemeni Abductee Mothers revealed that 183 individuals detained by Houthis, had been affected by several diseases, including 11 cases suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis in Dhammar alone. The Association said those detainees are deprived of their right to receive treatment, and that many of them were injured by these diseases in prison as a result of torture or poor health conditions. Houthis run 203 prisoners in Yemen, including 78 official and 125 secret prisons. Human rights organizations had previously revealed that the militias were responsible for the kidnapping of 19,000 people across Yemen from Sept. 2014 to July 2017.