A drawing of a detainee being abused at a prison in Yemen run by the UAE. The Arabic reads:
CAIRO: Various methods of sexual torture and humiliation have been used on prisoners by Yemeni guards working under the direction of officers from the UAE (United Arab Emirates), say witnesses.
They raped detainees while other guards filmed the assaults. They electrocuted prisoners’ genitals or hung rocks from their testicles.
They sexually violated others with wooden and steel poles.
“They strip you naked, then tie your hands to a steel pole from the right and the left so you are spread open in front of them. Then the sodomising starts,” said one father of four.
From inside the prison in Aden, detainees smuggled letters and drawings to the Associated Press (AP) about the sexual abuse. The drawings were made on plastic plates with blue ink pen.
The artist told the AP that he was detained last year and has been in three different prisons.
“They tortured me without even accusing me of anything. Sometimes I wish they would give me a charge so I can confess and end this pain,” he said.
“The worst thing about it is that I wish for death every day and I can’t find it.”
He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of further abuse.
The drawings show a man hanging naked from chains while he is being electrocuted, another inmate on the floor surrounded by snarling dogs as several people kick him, and graphic depictions of anal rape.
“Naked after beating,” one Arabic caption says. Another drawing shows a man’s rectum being forced open.
“This is how they search the prisoners,” the caption reads.
The 15 officers who arrived at the prison in southern Yemen hid their faces behind headdresses, but their accents were clearly foreign - from the United Arab Emirates.
They lined up the detainees and ordered them to undress and lie down. The officers then searched the anal cavity of each prisoner, claiming that they were looking for contraband cellphones.
The men screamed and wept. Those who resisted were threatened by barking dogs and beaten until they bled.
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