A/HRC/45/CRP.7 from September 2019, which note he has been subsequently appointed as the head of a battalion in 12th Storm Brigade.126 Appeals were made by the police in Al-Dhale’e and Aden to the President of the STC asking for his intervention to ensure the accused were brought to justice.127 In March 2020, the families of the victims, frustrated by the lack of progress, submitted a complaint to the Attorney-General. In August 2020, the file was reportedly referred to Aden.128 At the time of writing, the Group understands that the accused have still not been arrested. 103. In early January 2020, Special Security Forces of the Government of Yemen converted Al-Aram secondary school near the village of Al-Khubar, Haban district, Shabwa Governorate, into military barracks. On 1 February, dozens of students demonstrated against the requisition of their school. In response, the following day, hundreds of Special Security Forces, referred to by witnesses as “al-Islah militants”, raided Al-Khubar, searching for the students and arrested two brothers aged 14 and 16 years, detaining them on the basis of their alleged ties to the Shabwah Elite Forces affiliated with the STC. Later in the afternoon, when a group of men from the village approached the school to negotiate their release, Special Security Forces guarding the facility opened fire with AK-47s, killing two men from the group. 104. In another example, at 11 a.m. on 6 April 2020, a 19-year-old man, who was a student at Al-Mimlah Technical Institute, was driving home with his female colleague. Two armed men, allegedly from STC forces, stopped the car at a security checkpoint in Al-Mualla district near the beach promenade, in front of Coral Hotel in Aden Governorate. After they checked the man’s identification, they asked the victim to hand over his phone. When he refused, they aimed their weapons at him and assaulted him. The victim attempted to escape, and the soldiers opened fire, killing him. 105. During its previous mandate, the Group of Experts investigated cases of alleged deaths in custody relating to ill-treatment by the Houthis in detention places in Sana’a between 2015 and 2016.129 This year, the Group received credible reports of two women who died in their cell in a detention facility outside Sana’a in 2019, after violent beatings from the guards for resisting attempts to rape them.130 It also received an allegation that a boy was tortured to death in one of the police stations in Sana’a. 106. There are additional cases in which the Group of Experts has verified unlawful killings but has not been able to determine the affiliation of the perpetrator. An example is the killing of a man in Aden Governorate on 28 August 2019. The victim had been on a minibus which was stopped at gunpoint, at Jawlat Al-Karra Intersection on the Aden-Ta‘izz highway, Dar Sad district, by a group of armed men with military pickups. The armed men started checking passengers’ identification documents and verbally abused them, accusing them of being affiliated with the Security Belt forces. All adult male passengers were ordered to get off the minibus. After the search, the victim, who was wearing military pants, together with two other civilians, were not allowed to get back into the minibus. The victim was taken to a gas station located some 50 m from the Jawlat Al-Karra Intersection. After removing his clothes, the armed men took him to a rural area less than 1km away from the Jawlat Al-Karra Intersection, close to Dar Sad Police Station. His body was found the next morning, riddled with bullets. 107. In another case, the Group of Experts verified that on 18 March 2020, two male staff of the Emirates Red Crescent were abducted as they were leaving a gym club in Al-Drain neighbourhood, Al-Mansoura district in Aden. The victims were separated. One was placed in his car and the other in the perpetrator’s car and they were taken to an unknown location. The next day they were found dead by the Kabuta police and representatives of the criminal investigation department at a deserted building in Kabuta city in north-east Aden. This 126 Documents on file. Documents on file. 128 Confidential source on file. 129 A/HRC/42/CRP.1, para. 423. 130 Confidential source on file. 127 33