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UAE: "stripped naked", Yemeni recounts torture in prison
It’s been more than six years since Ali Hassan Ali Bakhtiyan was released from a secret prison run by the United Arab Emirates in eastern Yemen’s Hadramout Governorate, but he cannot forget the horrors he underwent during his more than two years in detention.
Source: Al Jazeera (21/01/2026)