On Thursday, a group of 23 Yemeni fishermen who were detained by the Saudi-led coalition forces for five days, arrived at the fishing port of Hodeidah city.
The Director General of the Ports and Landing Center, Aziz Al-Atini, and the Deputy Director-General of the General Authority for Fisheries, Muhammad Al-Omeisy, stated that 23 fishermen were detained while their boat and fishing equipment were confiscated.
Al-Atini and Al-Omeisy renewed their condemnation and denunciation of the repeated violations and criminal practices carried out by the US-Saudi coalition’s aggression and its pirate activities against fishermen, including kidnapping, physical attacks, confiscation of their boats, and not allowing them to practice the fishing profession in Yemen’s territorial waters.
They stressed that these acts of piracy committed against fishermen in the Red Sea are among the many war crimes against Yemen. In light of the shameful international silence, Sana’s government officials called on the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take a responsible stance towards these violations and to protect the fishermen.
