Yemen Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basindwa has expressed deep sorrow as some security, military and intelligence services do not meet directions of president Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi and the interim government to release detained revolutionaries.
In a meeting with representatives of General Council of Revolution Detainees (GCRD), Basindwa affirmed that the government will discus next Sunday formation of a committee to follow up the cases of detained revolutionaries.
Basindwa pledged to hand over a list of detained revolutionaries names to President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi and inform him that some security and intelligence services of refusing orders of releasing them.
GCRD staged a demonstration before the cabinet, demanding the release of detainees who were captured as a result of their participation in Yemen's revolution.
GCRD has cautioned that an outrage wave will broke out in case the detainees stay in custodies, affirming that arrests of revolutionaries are still carried out so far
It made it clear that three revolutionaries were detained this week by security forces in Dhala'a governorate.Head of GCRD Abdul-Karim Thoail has said the sit-in will be arranged every Tuesday in conjunction with the weekly meeting of the cabinet.He called on all revolutionaries across Yemen to not accept participation in the national dialogue until all detained revolutionaries are freed.Human Rights Minister Huriah Mashhour revealed this week that about 117 Yemeni revolutionaries are still held inside intelligence prisons.A Yemeni rights group, Hood, has revealed that protesters who were detained during the event of the last year are tortured inside underground jails of the Republican Guard and the military intelligence