Crimes committed by the Houthis — Sanaa City
The Houthis held education expert Mohamed Naji Khamash from June 2024 and informed his family of his death on 22 October that year, according to Yemen Shabab Net and rights ad
Houthi authorities announced educator Sabri al-Hakimi’s death in March 2024 after approximately six months in custody, according to the National Commission for Prisoners and A
Captured soldier Yanouf Hassan Ali Ali al-Butainah died in Houthi custody in Sanaa on 25 November 2023, a rights source told Yemen Shabab Net, attributing the death to torture
Captured soldier Muhammad Ahmad Abdullah Wahban died in the Houthi-run military prison in Sanaa on 13 November 2023 and was taken to the military hospital, informed sources to
In November 2023 Yemen Shabab Net reported an activist’s account that Sanaa’s public al-Sabeen hospital was withholding the body of a child named Hudhayfah pending payment of
Izz al-Din Saleh Muhammad Muhammad al-Habaji died in detention at Central Security camp in Sanaa, Yemen Shabab Net reported in November 2023. The outlet cited rights sources a
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
Journalist Mujalli al-Samadi was beaten near his home in al-Safiyah on 24 August 2023 and said his attackers threatened further violence if he continued writing. Yemen Shabab
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.
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
