An international human rights organization confirms the unprecedented escalation of kidnapping of women in the Houthi regions
English - Monday 16 December 2019 الساعة 08:58 am
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The human rights organization quoted eyewitnesses as saying that more than 35 girls and students were kidnapped from places of study and from the streets of the capital Sana'a during the past short period, noting in a statement published on Sunday that the motives of the kidnapping of some of them to put pressure on their families, and some of them may have false and malicious reports, and others for other accounts not yet known.
According to the sources, a number of girls were kidnapped in the city of Al-Tawila in Al Mahwit Governorate. They were learning to sew clothes at one of the sewing instructors at a sewing shop, after giving them an unknown drug - and they were transferred to a brothel and then transferred to prison after that.
According to the testimony of the father of one of the kidnapped girl, to Rites Radar said that his kidnapped daughter was transferred from the brothel to a prison in Sana'a, along with thirty other kidnappers from different regions, adding that they have refused to return his daughter to him until now.
The father of the kidnapped girl appeals to human rights organizations to urgently intervene to release his daughter and other abductees, and to stop this crime against their daughters.
The organization's statement reviewed a number of kidnapping crimes in the Houthi-controlled areas that were documented, adding, "During the past week only 3 girls were kidnapped in the capital, Sana'a, including two sisters, 18 years and 13 years old, in Al-Anab neighborhood in Sana'a, on Sunday morning, December 8, 2019. They are on their way to work in the neighboring neighborhood of Al-Nahda. The third is a primary eighth-grade girl who disappeared at 6:30 pm on Saturday, December 7, 2019, in front of her house in the Mueen area of Sanaa.
According to eyewitnesses, the kidnappers are a female militia affiliated with the Houthi group. "
It continued, "Armed members of the Houthi group in Sanaa raided a language institute in the Haddah area in the center of the capital, Sana'a, on December 9, 2019, and kidnapped women working in the institute. The raid and kidnapping was directed by a leader of the Houthi group believed to be a director of criminal investigation in the capital, Sanaa, where charges were fabricated against them, in violation of honor and morals, including the charge of prostitution, to justify the kidnapping and enforced disappearance.
"Human Rights Radar" called on the Houthi group in Sanaa to quickly investigate these crimes and violations and to detect and prosecute the perpetrators, noting that these crimes are unprecedented, in Yemen in particular, and a risk indicator that may lead to adverse societal reactions in defense of the honor and dignity of women.
It also called on all organizations and institutions concerned with the rights of women and children, local, regional and international, operating inside and outside Yemen, to move quickly to stop these crimes and immoral and inhuman practices, break the silence about them, press the Houthi group by all means , and obligate them to end these absurdities and these crimes and violations of the rights of women and children.
