Judicial Aid and Legal Support to Detainees

Musaala Organization for Human Rights launched this morning in Marib City the "Aoun’s Initiative for Legal Support for Prisoners” with a hearing session attended by a number of judges, lawyers, and human rights activists.

     The session aims to listen to a number of lawyers and prisoners to review the difficulties and challenges facing prisoners and what are the appropriate solutions to reduce the effects resulting from imprisonment.

     The participants explained that the weak prison infrastructure, the delay in deciding prisoners’ cases by the judiciary, and the lack of qualitative interventions by local and international organizations in raising the capabilities of detainees negatively affect the psychological and health status of the prisoner.

     For his part, the director of the initiative, Mohammad Abd Rabbo, confirmed that the Aoun initiative aims to provide judicial aid to male and female prisoners in Marib Governorate within three months through a number of activities that include supporting and providing 60 judicial aid sessions and legal support to a number of detainees, and restoring the bathrooms in the central prison, in addition to distributing a number of mattresses, blankets and sanitary bags and installing three toys for children in the women’s prison.

   Abd Rabbo pointed out that this initiative comes as part of the #GoCSOs project, which is implemented by Resonate! Yemen Foundation and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.