A report documents more than 500 Houthi crimes against maritime navigation
English - Sunday 30 January 2022 الساعة 04:02 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
A recent human rights report documented that the Houthi militia committed about 504 terrorist crimes against maritime navigation off Yemen, in violations amounting to war crimes.
The report issued by the National Forum for Human Rights revealed that the Houthi militia had committed about 5,091 humanitarian crimes against defenseless civilians in 18 governorates, ranging from enforced disappearance, arrests and torture.
Since 2014, the Houthi militia has turned Yemeni cities into a bloodbath, through the brutal bombing of residential neighborhoods with ballistic missiles and the inclusion of tens of thousands of its members and children in the incinerators of war, as well as the escalating acts of piracy in the Red Sea, the latest of which was the kidnapping of the civilian ship "Rawabi", which carries the flag. Emirates on January 5th.
Houthi Maritime Crimes
The report said that during the 7 years of Houthi control of Sanaa, commercial ships in the Red Sea were subjected to continuous terrorist attacks, threatening 13 percent of the volume of international trade annually, off the coup areas, according to estimates attributed to official data.
The report documented the commission of thousands of crimes during the activities of the militias in piracy off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis committed a series of violations amounting to war crimes in violation of international law, local laws, and international conventions and treaties ratified by Yemen, according to the report.
Those Houthi maritime crimes amounted to about 504 violations, including 183 cases of targeting international commercial cargo ships and military ships, and 49 cases of using the Red Sea shores for Iranian weapons smuggling operations to Yemen.
It also recorded 17 violations of targeting Yemeni and Saudi ports, planting 192 Houthi mines in the Red Sea waters, and perpetrating 63 attacks on fishermen and looting their property.
crimes against civilians
The report monitored the facts of violations committed by militias against civilians in 18 Yemeni governorates during 2021, bringing a total of 5,091 crimes and affecting 21 basic human rights.
These crimes varied between murder, torture, kidnapping, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, and laying land and sea mines of all kinds.
Taiz governorate came first in terms of violations, followed by Shabwa, Sana'a, Ma'rib, Hodeidah, Ibb, Aden and Saada; The stronghold of Houthi terrorists.
terrible violations
Violation of the existing right to bodily integrity topped 1,938 cases; Including 983 crimes of physical assault, 442 cases of arrest, enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention, as well as 153 crimes of torture and 17 cases of kidnapping.
In the second place of the Houthi crimes against civilians in Yemen came the violation of the right to life; Including 998 extrajudicial killings, including 765 violations of the right to property, 521 violations of the right to housing against civilians, 229 violations of freedom of movement and travel, 184 violations of the right to work, and a crime of violating the right to work. Fair trial with 66 incidents.
While the Houthi militia committed 69 crimes against freedom of opinion and expression, and 63 crimes related to freedom of assembly, the violation of the right to freedom of religion amounted to about 39 cases, 16 crimes of sexual assault, and the collective punishment against civilians was 12 crimes.
