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The government of Yemen investigates reports that forces backed by the United Arab Emirates were running secret prisons in southern Yemen where detainees are subjected to torture and abuse, Reuters reported.

Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed bin Daghr said that a special committee, headed by the justice minister to investigate "human rights allegations in liberated areas,” was set up.

Earlier, Human Rights Watch organization reported that it had documented the cases of 49 people, including four children, whom it said were arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared in Aden and Hadramout over the last year. 

As AP reported quoting lawyers, nearly 2,000 men have disappeared into the clandestine prisons of Yemen.

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