Sana'a society is shocked by the Houthi fatwa criminalizing women’s work ... and activists: pay them their salaries, Abdul-Malik
English - Thursday 04 February 2021 الساعة 06:01 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
With his usual lightness, Hossein Al-Ezzi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Iranian branch, said that preventing women in the areas of his group's control "from engaging in work" is an individual act that is a residue of the Wahhabi culture, denying that there is a "banning decision."
Commentators on his tweet reminded him of a black history of mobilization against women and their work in the history of his group designated as a terrorist organization.
The fatwa of “Shams al-Din bin Sharaf al-Din”, the Mufti of al-Houthi’s home, was nothing but a line in the book of Houthi incitement against women. Abdul-Malik’s speeches had previously considered the presence of women in educational institutes as a “spread of vice” .. And the Houthi media were overflowing with mobilization against women, whether they were workers, students or even "Shopper."
The so-called Houthi Cultural Front is carrying out a campaign of incitement against women, and in the Friday sermon, the Mufti of Houthi lands considered women's wedding celebrations "a disgrace and a shame, and whoever allows this among the men is among the sins", as a recording of his sermon appears.
Ahmad al-Shami, one of the cultural front’s directors, considered the demands of women to work as “Jews,” and said that those who call for this are sisters of the Jews and Christians.
Prohibition of work .. field stories
Abdel-Rahman Bajash, the former editor of Al-Thawra newspaper, witnessed one of the tragedies of the Houthi decisions, of a woman who was prevented from working as a cook in a restaurant to support her sick husband, children, and elderly mother.
In the context, the Yemeni Sadik platform, which investigates the authenticity of the news, confirmed that its team carried out a field visit to the restaurant and it was found that the owner of the restaurant was withdrawn to the police station, the owner was fined, and he was forced to write a pledge to lay off women from work, and he pledged not to employ any women. In the future.
Social media tweeters said that the scenes of hungry and destitute women begging in the streets did not move a finger in front of the rulings of the Houthi militia that they take from time to time under the umbrella of divine directives, but they moved against the actions of honorable women who provide for themselves and their families after the husbands of some died on the Houthi fronts and disappeared The other one is in his hidden prisons.
They demanded that these militias pay salaries to female citizens, and stop the husband of their men and throw them to the crematoriums and the fronts.
And they said: Any woman who is laid off from her work by a decision, a salary is approved for her by the authority that issued the decision, "or people vacate, seek God. In people whose conditions are difficult, and those who leave their home are not left except for what is needed," as they said.
Amnesty International has condemned Al Houthi’s ban on women from working, and said: “The Houthi authorities’ decision to prevent women from working in restaurants is shameful and discriminatory. We stand with all women in their struggle for their rights in Yemen. ”
