Sooki participates in symposium of Southern Independent Group on process of exchanging prisoners and detainees

SMA NEWS – ADEN the capital

The member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly, responsible of the human rights portfolio in the Transitional Council, Lawyer Niran Sooki, participated, on Friday, on the sidelines of the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in human rights symposium organized by the Southern Independent Group (SIG) for Human Rights, under the title “Prisoners of War and Detainees”, to discussed the exchange process of prisoners and detainees and the need to move forward in this file between the parties of the Yemeni crisis.

Sooki stressed that the Southern Transitional Council has been keen, since its establishment, to emphasize that human rights are indivisible, because they are an acquired right that must be strengthened, rooted and made part of the culture of society and the future state of the South.

In her speech, Sooki touched on the meeting that took place recently between the President of the Southern Transitional Council, President Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Maurer, and the discussion that took place, in which President Al-Zubaidi, stressed the need for the International Committee of the Red Cross to play its role with regard to the prisoners present in the detention centers of the Houthi militia, headed by the Defense Minister Mahmoud Al-Subaihi, Nasser Mansour Hadi, Faisal Rajab, and their companions from the southern leaders, and all prisoners of war.

With regard to dealing with international organizations and civil society organizations, lawyer Sooki said: “The Transitional Council has nothing to hide in this file, and it is ready to cooperate with everyone, on the conditions to be a real mirror that reflects, observe, monitors and reports professionally, and not to politicize the target, and not to be its presence only limited to Aden to focus only on the negatives and submitting incorrect reports to serve partisan and political agendas.

The symposium was attended by a number of representatives of international and Arab organizations, international press members, and human rights activists.