Major General Abdullah Qairan who is accused of committing crimes against peaceful protesters in Taiz has escaped to Cairo, well-informed sources affirmed on Tuesday.
Qairan was dismissed as a security director of Taiz three months ago after protests demanding to sack him escalated.
Protesters of Taiz charge Qairan with committing crimes against civilians and storming the Freedom Square in Taiz on May 29.
A court in Aden governorate had issued an arrest warrant against Qairan on charges of causing the death of a prisoner, Ahmed Darwish.
The Arab Organization for Human Rights appealed to the Egyptian authorities to suspend Qairan on charges of committing brutal crimes in Taiz and Aden.
An Egyptian newspaper, Al-Wafd, affirmed on Tuesday that Qairan arrived in Cairo on Sunday to settle there and pursue education.
Yemen rights organizations asked the Egyptian authorities to hold Qairan and surrender him to the Yemeni interim government or prosecute him under the international law in Egypt.
Sources of Aden's Immigration and Passport authority had revealed that Qairan has recently gotten a new passport in which he changed his personal data with the aim of leaving Yemen.
The sources said that the procedures were performed without the attendance of Qairan, pointing out that officials loyal to the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh helped him get the forged passport.
In late May, Taiz security forces attacked the central protest camp in Taiz city, shooting demonstrators and setting their tents on fire. More than 50 people were killed.
Qairan had admitted, in an interview with New York Times, that his forces committed mistakes, killed civilians and peaceful protesters.