Name: Jamal Al Maamari

Arrestee: Houthi group and Saleh'S forces

Date of arrest: March 2015

She tried to meet her husband and locate him among the Houthis, but it was extremely difficult. After two months, she managed to reach him, only to find her husband, Jamal Al-Ma'mari, confined to a wheelchair. She didn't recognize him at first. When he was arrested, he was healthy, fit, and physically active. It is distressing to hear about the transformation of his physical condition from being active and healthy to becoming paralyzed. His wife was initially confused and unsure if it was indeed him. However, she confirmed his identity through the tone of his voice as he recounted the details of the tragedy that befell him. He informed her that he was subjected to electric torture, where they would stretch his body and place weights on him while they sat on his back and consumed khat. Additionally, they pierced his spinal cord using a drill designed for iron and walls.

Sheikh Jamal Al-Ma'mari has become paralyzed and is unable to go to the bathroom by himself. He relies on specialized diapers for wheelchair users. Did Sheikh Jamal Al-Ma'mari's wife know the reason why the Houthis and men affiliated with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused her request to visit her husband for two months?

They would break his back, and after they succeeded, they accepted the request. They brought him in a wheelchair, with both feet burned and the left one swollen. The doctor, Abdulqader Al-Junaid, who was also detained alongside Sheikh Jamal Al-Ma'mari and contributed to his treatment, explains that the burning of Jamal's feet was a result of electric torture.

The electric shocks that the Sheikh endured are related to the electrification that reached the Al-Rajil area. The name of Jamal Al-Ma'mari became associated with the spread of electrical lights in the isolated village of "Ayal Yazid" in the Imran Governorate. He was the one who sought to provide and monitor this service in government institutions before the war. Sheikh Al-Ma'mari's name shone brightly, and he was beloved by the people. However, there were those who were displeased with the social status that Al-Ma'mari achieved through his service to the people. They continued to plot against him, trying to extinguish the light.

When the war broke out, those who had engaged in disputes with Sheikh Al-Ma'mari joined the ranks of the Houthi group. By the time the Houthi group stormed Sana'a, these individuals had become leaders within their ranks. It was time to discipline the man who was staying in a hotel on Airport Street in Sana'a with his wife and three daughters. Six military vehicles filled with armed men stopped at the hotel entrance. The gunmen rushed towards the location, instilling fear in the woman, and the cries of the children grew louder. The armed men took Sheikh Jamal to two different locations.

The armed men initially took Jamal Al-Ma'mari to a secret detention center known as the "hidden prison," which was located in the basement of a villa belonging to Ali Mohsen. They raided the homes of leaders whom they considered as adversaries, and one of those houses was the villa of the Vice President at that time and the commander of the northwestern military region, which had engaged in six wars against the Houthi group.

On the same day, they also looted Sheikh Al-Ma'mari's car, in addition to looting the house of his brother near the new airport.

Sheikh Al-Ma'mari remained in the villa detention center for 20 days before being transferred to the National Security Prison in the Sarf area. Throughout a month and a half, he was subjected to torture, resulting in the loss of his ability to move. His hands were bound behind his back, and they would lay him down as a mattress and sit on his back while chewing qat. They placed a "shala" between his armpits and arms, and one of the torturers would pull it from his head on the ground, while another person would pull it from his ankles at the same time.

The two armed individuals dragged Al-Ma'mari up and down the stairs, while a third person kicked him on the side of his buttocks. This violence led to the severing of the brachial plexus nerves in his left arm and damage to the femoral nerve in the iliac region, resulting in paralysis of the left side of his body.

According to the doctor, Al-Junaid, who was also detained in the same prison, Sheikh Al-Ma'mari was subjected to torture with a drill used for drilling solid objects. They brought it from another cell, and he was reduced to a mere human mass, in pain and crying, requiring at least two prisoners to assist him.