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Jun 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
#UAE#trafficking
As UAE police vehicles slowly navigate al Baraha district in Dubai, women come down every night, stand in front of their buildings to sell their bodies and pay their traffickers.
One of the young women lured into the #UAE and spent months locked up an apartment in Abu Dhabi said that when she sought help from police, she was told to go away. “To hell with Africa.” #Nigeria#trafficking
May 15, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
People in #Yemen ‘s Aden are dying in droves and in Sanaa, Houthis are waging a campaign to aggressively suppress any information about the scale of the outbreak. apnews.com/d90f7e47659508…
In Sanaa, medical staffers said they are under surveillance by Houthis and can’t speak about what they see inside health centers. In Aden, many medical facilities in Aden have closed as staffers flee or simply turn patients away.
Dec 7, 2018 • 13 tweets • 11 min read
Monir al-Sharqi was burned so severely by acid. A family member said he was held and tortured by Houthis in Taiz for a year. Monir can't tell as he lost his memory. #Yemen
Yahia al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader, admits torture in an exclusive video obtained by the AP. Yahia led a committee that visited the detention centers. Another Houthi figure said: "We saw what made our eyes flow with tears of blood." #Yemen