The Nobel Peace laureate and human rights advocate Tawakkol Karman has described Interior Minister Ahmed al-Meissari's announcement that all prisons in the liberated governorates are under the authority of the Attorney General and Prisons Service as a lie that harms Yemen’s legitimate authority.

"Al Maisari knows that he is lying when he claims that the prisons are under the authority of the Attorney-General and the Prison Service in the areas liberated from Houthi's control," wrote Tawakkol Karman on Twitter.

Karman added that Al Maisari’s lie causes great harm to the legitimate government and the victims while it enables the UAE to commit more crimes of arrest and enforced disappearance.

Yemen’s Interior Minister Ahmed al-Meissari's has recently declared that all the prisons in the liberated governorates have become under the direct authority of the Attorney-General and under the ministry's prison service, stressing that no other party has any control in this regard.  

The Associated Press (IP) had revealed earlier that the UAE runs 18 secret prisons in the areas liberated form the Iranian-backed Houthi militia.