Crimes committed by the Houthis — Prisoners and detainees
The Houthis detained Hisham al-Hakimi, Save the Children’s safety and security director, in September 2023 and held him incommunicado. Amnesty International confirmed his arbi
SAM condemned the detention of journalist Muhammad al-Qadiri’s wife and seven-year-old son Abdullah in Ibb in September 2023, relaying his account that a Houthi official was h
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms reported that prisoner Sami al-Wutairi died after torture at Sanaa’s central prison, in a statement carried by Yemen Shabab Net in J
The Houthis detained Ibrahim Mahrous, director of al-Badr hospital in Ibb, in June 2023, released him and detained him again in August, sources told Yemen Shabab Net. The arti
Armed Houthis stormed a peaceful Baha’i gathering at a private Sanaa residence, detained seventeen people, including five women, and forcibly disappeared them.
Houthi gunmen abducted Ahmad Ali Saleh Raziq from a farm watch post in Beit al-Nakheef, Bani Hushaysh, on 10 May 2023 and denied him family contact, according to relatives’ ac
A Houthi force raided Qadar villages in Bani Awn, Sharaab al-Salam, fired toward homes and abducted five people, according to Yemen Shabab Net’s early-October 2023 reporting.
The family of captured soldier Abdulwahab Numan al-Shajea was notified of his death in Houthi custody in October 2022, after he had been captured wounded during fighting in al
Houthi forces abducted Khaled Abdullah Zuhair at al-Azraqayn checkpoint north of Sanaa in early October 2022 and concealed him, local sources told Yemen Shabab Net. He had joi
The Houthis arrested human rights defender Fatma al-Arwali at Al-Manshour checkpoint in Taiz and disappeared her for about eight months before her family informally learned sh
Basem Abdulkarim al-Houbari died on 16 May 2022 after being abducted from a Sanaa street roughly two weeks earlier, media sources cited by Yemen Shabab Net said. They attribut
Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani reported in April 2022 that Rami Hassan Ghazi, 24, had died after three months in Houthi Preventive Security custody in Hajjah. Yemen Sh
