Yemeni politician Abdul Wahab Al-Humaigani accuses militia of executing his nephew after torture AL-MUKALLA: A number of Yemeni prisoners at a detention center in Houthi-controlled Sanaa have gone on hunger strike to put pressure on the militia to release them and end their brutal treatment, their families said on Monday. Prisoners held at the Houthi-run Intelligence Prison in Sanaa’s Shamlan area went on hunger strike to protest their extended confinement and demand that the Houthis free them, put them on trial, or at least improve the circumstances within the prison. A relative of a prisoner named Saleh Salim bin Yemain told Arab News that the 31-year-old, who has been held in Sanaa since late 2014, has decided to strike to force the Houthis to end years of suffering by either releasing him or putting him on trial, adding that he is now sick and emaciated as a result of years of sporadic hunger strikes. “He was frail from torture and a hunger strike, and his health was declining when I saw him,” his relative, who preferred anonymity, said. “Our demand is that he be released or that his case is turned over to the prosecution.” The wife of prisoner Adel Tareq Al-Baydani said that her husband went on hunger strike a few days ago to protest Houthi mistreatment and their reluctance to release or charge him after seven years in jail. “I am demanding his release since he is ill with chronic intestinal ailments and heart difficulties, and he takes aspirin,” she told Arab News. “He was a young man when he was arrested, and he now appears to be in his 60s,” she said. The relatives insisted on releasing the full identities of the inmates in the hope that public attention would lead to their release after the Houthis rejected their demands previously. Since taking power in late 2014, the Houthis have abducted hundreds of Yemenis from various locations under their control and subjected them to physical and psychological torture, according to local and international rights organizations, resulting in multiple deaths. Abdul Wahab Al-Humaigani, a Yemeni politician, on Sunday accused the Houthis of executing his nephew Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Humaigani, a prisoner of war captured by the Houthis four years ago. The Yemeni politician said that his relative was cruelly tortured and forcefully disappeared by the Houthis, and his family recently learnt that they had executed him. In another development, the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said on Sunday that a middle-aged man who had been released from a Houthi jail died on Saturday from complications developed in prison as a result of torture. The Yemeni organization said that Aziz Dabuan Al-Dahshami was imprisoned by the Houthis, tortured until he was clinically dead, and then released. After spending two months at a local Taiz hospital, he passed away on Saturday. Local activists say the Houthis remain unconcerned about abuse of captives in their control, only agreeing to release them in exchange for fighters captured by their opponents, despite local and international appeals.