Maroc Abdelkader who was kidnapped and tortured in the prisons of Houthi militias in Sanaa since early January 2016 was released.
After his release, Maroc arrived in Marib and was welcomed by deputy of Marib province Dr. Abed Rabbo Meftah and the Director General of the Political Security Branch Brigadier General Naji Hatroum.
Maroc, who works for the French company Osianic, was assigned in 2015to visit Mukalla and Sanaa to collect the company's tools.
During his departure from Sanaa International Airport, the Houthi militia kidnapped him and sent him to one of its prisons.
Maroc said that while he was in the jail, he was accompanied by a number of Yemeni and American prisoners, including the American John who died from torture while militias declared he had committed suicide.
the French abductee remained hidden and never saw the sunlight for six months – he faced all types of torture: suspension, electricity, beatings, snow and fire. A year later he was transferred to a political or national security prison and allowed to communicate with his family with only two words: I’m alive. Maroc said the Houthi militia threatend him to admit in front of a camera that he was working for the intelligence unless he would be tortured.
He added that Houthi militias took all his money and the gold that his family had.
After nearly two years of torture and following the intervention of the French government he was released but kept under house-arrest in Sanaa.
