NCIAVHR Visits the Detention Center of the Women and Child Protection Department of Taiz Police

Taiz,

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The National Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations of Human Rights (NCIAVHR) carried out a field visit to the Women’s Section in the Central Prison in Taiz and the detention center of the Women and Child Protection Department of Taiz Police, in conjunction with the International Women’s Day.

The Commission’s team listened to the explanations of the women police concerned with the protection of female prisoners and detainees and wrote down the most important demands related to improving the environment of the departments and wards. The rooms and places of detention in the Department of the Women and Juveniles Protection and the improvements recently made were also examined.

During the visit, the rooms, sections, and the environment of women’s detention in their section in Taiz Central Prison were inspected, and women prisoners’ demands for health and psychological care for female detainees and their children, legal aid, rehabilitation, training, and expediting procedures for investigation and litigation by the prosecution and the judiciary were examined.

Moreover, (20) female prisoners were heard talking about the reasons for detention, the procedures that were followed during arrest and detention, and the social and economic conditions of the inmates, documenting their demands for their legal rights and access to justice, and meeting their needs and guarantees of humane and dignified treatment.

In a related context and within the framework of monitoring and documenting the humanitarian situation of civilians in the fire-front areas, especially women and children, the Commission visited a number of neighborhoods in the Salah and Al- Ta’ziyah districts and examined the daily life conditions experienced by women and their children, and the imminent risk of death in the light of sniping, shelling of homes, and the explosion of anti-personnel mines in the corridors and roads used by women and children.