A New Crime Stains the Hands of the Muslim Brotherhood: Islah Mercenaries Execute Prisoner Issa Al-Afiri in Taiz

In a horrific crime exposing the brutality of the mercenaries and their total moral and humanitarian collapse, the militias of Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood–affiliated Islah Party in the occupied city of Taiz executed captive Issa Muqbil Ali Aoun Al-Afiri, in a blatant violation of all human values, norms, and international laws — and in open defiance of United Nations-sponsored agreements on prisoner exchange.

The crime shocked national conscience and reminded everyone of the gang-like rule imposed in the occupied territories — rule by the gun, devoid of any legal, moral, or human restraint — reflecting the true face of mercenaries who have abandoned every sense of patriotism and humanity.

Show Trial and Fabricated Charge: The Hallmark of Islah’s Criminality

The National Committee for Prisoner Affairs stated that what happened to Al-Afiri was nothing but a mock trial, fabricated outside any legal or religious framework. The Islah mercenaries concocted false accusations simply to get rid of him.

The prisoner, who had been held for years in the mercenaries’ prisons, was denied his right to defense and all legal safeguards — evidence, the committee said, of the deep moral decay within the Islah militias and their contempt for every human value.

A Crime Defying International and UN Agreements

According to the committee, the martyred prisoner had been listed with the United Nations since the Stockholm Agreement of 2018, which makes his execution a war crime in every sense and a clear violation of international conventions concerning prisoners of war.

The committee added that the act represents a flagrant challenge to the UN and open contempt for the agreements the parties pledged to uphold. It exposes the hypocrisy of the coalition and its mercenaries who speak of “human rights” while committing the worst abuses inside their prisons.

“This Crime Will Not Go Unpunished” — Prisoner Affairs Committee

In its statement, the committee stressed that this crime will not pass unpunished and will not be subject to any statute of limitations — those directly responsible and those who ordered it will face justice, sooner or later.

The committee emphasized that the killing of Al-Afiri was a deliberate attempt to complicate the prisoner-exchange file and to undermine UN and humanitarian efforts to resolve it. The mercenaries, it said, intentionally provoke tension and sabotage every humanitarian initiative aimed at ending the suffering of prisoners and detainees.

Holding Islah Party and the Saudi Regime Fully Responsible

The committee placed full legal and moral responsibility on the leadership of the Islah Party and, behind them, the Saudi regime, for this heinous crime and its dangerous repercussions on the prisoner file.

It noted that this is not the first such incident but part of a systematic pattern of abuse against prisoners and abductees — crimes committed amid suspicious silence from the United Nations and human rights organizations, whose inaction has emboldened the perpetrators to continue without fear of accountability.

Call for UN Envoy and Organizations to Act

In a clear message to the international community, the National Committee for Prisoner Affairs called on the UN Envoy to Yemen to assume his humanitarian and legal responsibility regarding this crime, noting that he is fully aware of Al-Afiri’s case and of the violations committed by the mercenaries in their prisons.

The committee also urged all international and local humanitarian organizations operating in Yemen to condemn the crime, pursue the perpetrators, and take serious measures against these violations — which it described as a stain on the conscience of humanity.

National and Popular Call to Denounce the Crime

The committee further called upon tribal and social leaders and all Yemeni people to unite in condemning this heinous act and to stand together against the mercenaries’ crimes, which aim to humiliate the dignity of the Yemeni people.

It affirmed that such crimes will only strengthen the resolve of free Yemenis to continue the struggle for liberation and independence and to bring every killer and traitor to justice, while cleansing every inch of Yemeni soil from the filth of foreign servitude and mercenarism.

A New Proof of the Coalition’s Moral Collapse

The execution of prisoner Issa Al-Afiri stands as another proof of the moral and political downfall of the aggression and its agents — people who have lost their humanity and turned into tools of murder under Saudi command and American supervision.

Yet the blood of martyrs will not be shed in vain. The curse of Al-Afiri will haunt all those who participated in his killing until justice is served and every prisoner’s dignity and rights are restored.

This crime epitomizes the very nature of the aggression