Crimes committed by the Houthis — Prisoners and detainees
Sheikh Abdrabbuh Daji died in Houthi custody in Sanaa on 5 February 2022, rights sources told Yemen Shabab Net. They said he had been abducted from Daris market in northern Sa
The Houthis held educator Muhammad Musaad al-Warafi in Ibb for weeks in 2022, according to activist Ibrahim Asqeen’s account published by Yemen Shabab Net in November. Al-Wara
The Houthis publicly executed nine people by firing squad in Sanaa’s Tahrir Square after prosecuting them over the killing of a Houthi official.
The Houthis abducted journalist Younis Abdulsalam from a Sanaa street in early August 2021 and held him for more than sixteen months, Yemen Shabab Net reported. His lawyer Abd
Houthi security forces launched projectiles into an overcrowded hangar holding migrants in Sanaa, starting a fire that killed scores and injured many more. Detainees had prote
Houthi security forces arrested actress and model Intisar al-Hammadi at a checkpoint in Shamlan. Amnesty International documented blindfolded interrogation, physical and verba
Omar Ahmad al-Samei died on 16 November 2020, according to a Hospital 48 report date quoted by Yemen Shabab Net in December 2022. Local sources said his family continued payin
The Houthis banished released detainees to other parts of Yemen, taking them from detention to the airport and ordering them onto flights to Aden and Seyoun.
The Houthis forced six Baha’i detainees to leave Yemen after their release instead of allowing them home. They were transferred directly to Sanaa airport and placed on a fligh
Muhammad al-Izzi Qabel died at al-Riyada hospital in Dhamar on 7 June 2020, days after release from Houthi detention. Yemen Shabab Net cited a source close to the family attri
The Houthis detained aid worker Yasser Muhammad Junaid in February 2017, transferred him to Zabid and then denied holding him, national investigation commission member Ishraq
The Houthis arrested linguistics professor Youssef al-Bawab as he left a mosque in Sanaa, then raided his home and confiscated his belongings that night.
