Al-Houthi reproduces the behavior of the Iranian regime in arresting and torturing Yemeni women
English - Sunday 27 March 2022 الساعة 09:03 am
Aden, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
Women in Yemen are subjected to many brutal violations by the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen. Since the Houthi coup against power in 2014, thousands of women have been subjected to the most heinous practices and violations, ranging from killing, injury, kidnapping, detention and torture.
And during the period from September 21, 2014 to October 25, 2020, 4,282 women were subjected to brutal violations committed against them by the terrorist Houthi militia in 17 Yemeni governorates, according to a report by the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms.
The Houthi violations against women, which were monitored by the Network for Rights and Freedoms during the mentioned period, varied between 1,456 killings and 2,379 injuries as a result of artillery shelling, mine explosions, explosive devices, sniping and random firing of live bullets, in addition to 447 cases of kidnapping, disappearance and torture.
Dr. Wissam Basindawa, head of the Yemeni Coalition for Independent Women, revealed that there are more than 1,181 female detainees in the secret prisons of the Houthi militia, subjected to the worst types of psychological and moral torture, mutilation and attacks of all kinds.
Dr. Arwa Al-Khattabi, President of Broken Share Organization, accuses the Houthi militia of confiscating the personal rights and freedoms of women, noting that dozens of women were tortured by burning and electricity, and some of them were raped, and that there are cases that have been announced, through the Security Council Committee of Experts on Yemen.
In a symposium held on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council, at its 49th session in Geneva earlier this month, the head of Broken Points explained that Houthi secret prisons are not subject to international monitoring, as some women are imprisoned with their children unchecked, noting that these violations are not It is individualistic, rather systematic, and is supervised by Iranian experts, especially since al-Houthi kidnaps women from homes and streets and from their jobs.
Al-Khattabi indicated that the Houthis reproduced the behavior of the Iranian regime, which arrests women, where they are tortured in prisons, and unfair sentences are issued against them, calling for quickly classifying Houthi crimes against women as war crimes, and interrogating those involved and prosecuting them internationally.
Rights Radar documented the Houthis’ crimes against women, in five years, in a report entitled “Women in the Wind,” where the number of killings of 668 women, in addition to the injury of 1,733, kidnappings of 553, and victims of mines and explosive devices amounted to 112 women.
In the same context, human rights sources stressed the need to hold the Houthi militia accountable for its crimes, calling on the international community and the United Nations to condemn these violations, call on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities, and put pressure on the Houthi militia to stop targeting women.
For her part, the international expert and professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva, Dr. Astrid Stockelberger, denounced the absence of the United Nations from its role in stopping Houthi violations, noting that there are international organizations that have not fulfilled their humanitarian duty towards Houthi crimes, and are working to document them, especially since Yemen is one of the countries that It has ratified international conventions and treaties that protect women and prevent violence against women, which can be used to designate al-Houthi as a war criminal, because he violates these treaties, and he can be tried in the International Court of Justice.
