A human rights report has been documented that the Houthi militia, since its seizure of power, was arrested and kidnapped 16,800 Yemeni civilians, during the period from September 2014 to the end of August 2022.
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms stated in a report that more than 4201 are a civilian kidnapper, who have been confirmed by their information and the validity of their data, still in the prisons of the Houthi militia until the moment, calling on the international community to pressure the Houthis to release them immediately and without conditions.
Among the kidnapped in the Houthi prisons: 389 politicians, 464 activists, 340 media, 176 children, 374 women, 342 educationally, about 512 sheikhs and social figures, 216 preachers and preachers of a mosque, 154 academics, and 217 students.
The report also documented 96 cases of arrest of lawyers and judges, 93 cases of detention against doctors, 376 arrest cases against employees and administrators, 293 cases of arrest of cleaners and marginalized workers, 81 cases of foreigners and refugees, and 78 arrest cases against merchants.
The report also documented 147 liquidation cases inside prisons, 282 deaths due to negligence in prisons, 92 deaths of detainees with heart attacks after being deprived of the arrival of the necessary treatment for them. 52 detainees were injured by kidney failure and total or half paralysis as a result of torture and neglect by the Houthi group.
According to the report, “More than 98 detainees died after they left the Houthi militia prisons a few days, which is likely to have been put to toxic injection before they left the detainees. ”
Among the kidnappers of the Houthis, “old people exceeding the age of 60, as well as young adults who are not more than 14 years old, wounded, heart patients, diabetes, blood pressure, psychological, neurological and dermatologists,” according to the report.
The report emphasized that “about 1317 Yemenis are still forcibly hidden in the Houthi militia prisons, including 84 women and 76 children. ”
According to the report, the Houthi militia “subjected about 4012 detainees, kidnapped and forcibly hidden to torture and physical torture and took them as human shields and filtering inside the Houthi prisons, including 463 cases that were taken as human shields. “.
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