When Al-Houthi incited his gang against Yemeni women
English - Saturday 13 August 2022 الساعة 10:04 am
Aden, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
There are many Houthi violations against women, including murder, kidnapping, torture, verbal, physical and sexual assault on them. The coup militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, continues its campaign of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of women and girls outside the framework of the law, in its areas of control.
The criminal militia deliberately fabricates charges of prostitution against the kidnapped women with the aim of isolating them from society and prolonging their detention, in order to exploit them and blackmail their families, and use kidnapping to create a stigma to muzzle and suppress dissenting voices.
The leader of the militia, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in his speech on what was called the “second anniversary of steadfastness” on March 26, 2017, directed his gang to confront what he called a “soft, corrupt war,” which he said “seeks to corrupt young people and spread prostitution and drugs,” and that his gang must confront this The war in “universities, schools, mosques, shrines, and occasions.” This inflammatory Houthi rhetoric was a declaration of war against women in Yemen, after which campaigns of violations and kidnappings against women began until today.
Community activist Umm al-Salam al-Hajj, head of the Association of Abductees' Mothers, says that the violations committed by the Houthi militia against women, the assault on the sanctities of homes, the kidnapping of women, beating and torturing them to death, did not happen before and our Yemeni society knew them only during the time of the Houthi militia and in their hands.
Al-Hajj asserts that the violations and crimes committed by the militia against women are only a few, as there are many violations, and as a result of the so-called shame and disgrace they are hidden and the victims or their relatives cannot speak about them.
In late June, the terrorist militia carried out a campaign of raids on homes, kidnapping and arresting dozens of girls and women in Hajjah city, forcibly disappearing them, spreading offensive rumors against them and defaming them with the intent of insulting, humiliating and extorting their families.
The "Women for Peace in Yemen Alliance" organization documented the data of 74 girls of the victims who were kidnapped from their homes and arrested in Hajjah by the Houthis. Emphasizing that the militia took advantage of its unjust iron fist and the absence of the international role that enabled them to gain their full influence, until they reached the point of violating the freedom and safety of Yemeni women.
In mid-July, 36 Yemeni, regional and international human rights organizations called in a letter to US President Joe Biden to reconsider the classification of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, noting the increase in violations and the escalation of violence of the Houthi militia after it was removed from the list of terrorist organizations, listing the militia's crimes, including crimes and violations against Women who have been raped, murdered, kidnapped and arrested since the beginning of the war at the hands of the terrorist Houthi militia.
A report by Amnesty International, last March, indicated that in 2021 alone, the Houthi militia detained at least 233 women and girls in centers in Sana’a, who were subjected to systematic torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence; cruel and inhuman treatment; and forced conscription.
The Capital Media Center documented 1,395 crimes and violations against women committed by the Houthi coup militia during the past year 2021, including twenty killings, forty injuries, and more than 100 attacks.
In its report, the Center confirmed that most of the perpetrators of crimes and violations against women are Houthi leaders, some of whom are security forces, in addition to supervisors, appointed by sheikhs, or through what is known as Zainabiyat, and the crimes and violations committed by unknown persons.
The Information and Rehabilitation Center for Human Rights in Yemen indicated in a statement in January 2021 that approximately 300 women are behind the bars of Houthi prisons, including 100 political and human rights activists and media professionals, and about 45 women are in a state of enforced disappearance.
According to a report by the international team of experts in charge of the Yemen file, in September 2020, more than 300 women and girls have been subjected to violence and intimidation by the Houthis, in addition to the aggravation of threats of rape, sexual assault and accusations of prostitution, in an attempt to legitimize their practices through these accusations.
