Yemen Monitor / Newsroom:
Yemeni Al-Islah Party announced today its categorical rejection of the preliminary information released regarding the fate of its senior member, Mohammed Qahtan, who has been forcibly disappeared by the Houthi movement.
In a post on X, party spokesman Adnan Al-Odaini said that the conclusion of the inspection committee’s work without locating Qahtan leaves the case where it began and places full human rights and political responsibility on the Houthi movement.
Al-Odaini stated that the committee’s work ended without finding Mohammed Qahtan, adding that “the essence of the case remains unchanged. The political and human rights question still stands: Where is Mohammed Qahtan?”
He added that the Houthis are “required to reveal his whereabouts or release him,” stressing that no statement or proposal that fails to answer this question directly can be accepted.
He further emphasized that no other discussion can proceed before a clear and documented answer regarding Qahtan’s fate is obtained, and that the legal and moral responsibility continues to rest with the Houthis, whom he described as “the party that abducted Qahtan” from his home in Sana’a.
Al-Islah spokesman concluded by affirming that Qahtan’s case will remain alive and unresolved, reiterating that the unavoidable question is: “Where is Mohammed Qahtan?”
Mohammed Qahtan, a member of Al-Islah’s Supreme Council, is one of Yemen’s most prominent forcibly disappeared politicians, having been abducted by the Houthi movement in April 2015.
The Yemeni government and Al-Islah have made clarifying Qahtan’s fate and securing his release a key condition for any meaningful progress in the prisoner and detainee exchange process, which is scheduled to begin in the coming days.
