Crimes committed by the Houthis — Sanaa City
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
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 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
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
Houthi personnel and Zainabiyat members used force against women and girls attempting to join a peaceful Sanaa protest on 6 October 2018, according to a UN investigation. Expe
The Houthis attacked women demonstrating in Sanaa on 21 March 2018 and detained at least sixty, according to UN experts. The investigation documented torture and ill-treatment
Houthi security personnel, including Zainabiyat members, attacked women protesters and bystanders in Sanaa on 6 December 2017, according to the UN experts’ investigation. It d
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.
