Groups of NDC ‘independent youth’ members and youths affiliated with Yemen’s various ‘revolutionary squares’ visited with imprisoned revolutionaries at Sana’a Central Prison on Saturday. The imprisoned revolutionaries started a hunger strike eight days ago.

NDC Second Deputy Secretary General Yassir Al-Roani said the release of all people who had been imprisoned in connection with 2011’s peaceful revolution was among the twenty key points made by the NDC Technical Committee last year.

“The detainees’ release is key to continuing the NDC and to ensuring that the NDC’s outcomes will be implemented,” he said.

The young people warned that if Chief Prosecutor Ali Al-Awash failed to fulfill his pledge and release the imprisoned revolutionaries in two days, they would sue him.

Al-Awash said last week that he would secure their release. His comments came after President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi issued an order for the revolutionaries to be released.

NDC member and youth representative Nadia Abdullah said the authorities should prosecutre imprisoned revolutionaries or release them.

“Holding young people without charges or trial is illegal,” she said.

After the visit to the prison, the NDC members and other protesters demonstrated outside Awash’s office to demand that he follow through on his pledge to secure the revolutionaries’ release.