Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has rejected a local committee President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi had ordered to create in order to investigate human rights violations allegedly committed in a secret network of prisons run by the UAE in the southern provinces.

Instead, she demanded, in statement posted on social media, an international probe into these violations.

On last Saturday, Yemen's internationally recognized government-in-exile declared a creation of a committee to investigate human rights violations in southern Yemen after reports that detainees have been cruelty and violently tortured by UAE forces in secret detention centers across Yemeni areas in south. 

The order said the investigation would focus on areas liberated by government forces from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and their allies.

The reports of the alleged abuses were revealed by the AP on Thursday. Based on these reports, hundreds are detained in a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen. 

Mrs. Karman pointed out that the UAE forces and their militias are preventing Yemeni government represented by the legitimate Hadi from extending its control and sovereignty over airports, ports and other institutions in Aden and Hadhramaut.