{"id":71670,"date":"2020-12-17T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71670"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:56:59","slug":"france-covering-up-uae-crimes-at-secret-yemen-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71670-france-covering-up-uae-crimes-at-secret-yemen-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;France covering up UAE crimes at secret Yemen prison&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-56.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the French Parliament on Wednesday accused Emmanuel Macron\u2019s government of covering up crimes committed by the UAE at a factory in Yemen used as a secret prison.<br>\u201cHow long will you continue to lie?\u201d lawmaker Clementine Autain asked Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parly during a speech in Parliament.<br>\u201cI asked Parly about this. He said he had no knowledge. I raised my concerns to Le Drian. He directed me to the relevant companies. I wonder what the ministers do.\u201d<br>Autain said she was speaking on behalf of the 51 French lawmakers who signed an open letter on Monday expressing concerns over the UAE running a prison at a gas production factory, partly owned by French oil company Total, in Balhaf, Yemen.<br>She pointed out that the French government gave \u20ac216 million ($263 million) in loans to a group of companies, including Total, when the Balhaf factory was established.<br>\u201cA few days ago, you awarded the Legion d&#8217;Honneur to [Egypt\u2019s President] al-Sisi. Today, your silence covers up the crimes the UAE committed in a factory built with the support of France,\u201d she said.<br>She also took up the matter in a post on Twitter, saying: \u201cI believe that the government has decided not to get angry with the \u2018Emirati ally\u2019 to whom it sold \u20ac1.4 billion (over $1.7 billion) worth of arms in 2019.\u201d<br>The issue first came to light following a report by French publication Le Monde in November last year.<br>The report cited testimonies of people who were held and subjected to \u201cinhumane actions, including torture\u201d at the covert prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the French Parliament on Wednesday accused Emmanuel Macron\u2019s government of covering up crimes committed by the UAE at a factory in Yemen used as a secret prison.\u201cHow long will you continue to lie?\u201d lawmaker Clementine Autain asked Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parly during a speech in Parliament.\u201cI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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