Houthis, abuse and violations... the judiciary suffers in Houthi areas
English - Saturday 27 August 2022 الساعة 09:22 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
The judiciary in the areas under the control of the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen, suffers from serious violations and crimes committed by the militias against its entity and its members. With the aim of harnessing it for the benefit of its obscurantist project and the goals of its leaders, and to take revenge on its opponents.
Since the first moments of the militias’ takeover of Sana’a in September 2014, it has issued appointment decisions for judges from the dynasty and others loyal to it, after removing the former judges as part of the Houthis operations of the kidnapped institutions, especially the judiciary.
The Houthi militia has deliberately excluded thousands of students who apply annually since its takeover of Sanaa for entrance exams to the Higher Institute of the Judiciary under its control, and made it a monopoly on Hashemite families for clear racist and dynastic reasons, insisting on empowerment and control of the judiciary. In a similar behavior was carried out by the former Imami regime before the dawn of the revolution of September 26, 1962.
The militias’ actions prompted the Supreme Judicial Council to take a decision in mid-2018 to move the institute’s headquarters to the capital, Aden, and consider its outputs in Sana’a as if they had never been, especially since all of these outputs had sectarian and racist goals behind them.
Separation and Houthana
The Houthis' war on judges in their areas of control began with the confiscation of salaries as a tool to harass the judiciary. He installed the recently formed Inquisition Courts as an alternative to the Judicial Inspection Commission, and began its work by suspending 70 judges and members on behalf of the work and referring them to trial under the allegations of purging the judiciary. While the goal is to get rid of judges who do not support the sectarian ideology of the Houthi militia, or refuse to submit to the directives of the so-called "justice system", especially after the failure to tame all judges in the areas controlled by the Houthi gang affiliated with Iran, and aims to insult judges and workers in the judiciary, which It prompted a number of them to submit their resignations, but there are voices that rise from time to time calling for confronting these attacks and blatant interference in the independence of the judiciary.
Judge Arafat Qaid Jaafar, a judge at the West Dhamar Court of First Instance, said in a statement to (NewsYemen), that the independence of the judicial institution in Yemen is lacking, as politics has corrupted the hammer of the judiciary, which has become weaker than a spider web and unable to achieve a modicum of justice.
Military commissions and the justice system
The militias did not stop at the Hawtna of the Higher Institute for the Judiciary and the war on judges. Rather, its violations affected various sectors of the judiciary. After the formation of the so-called "Judicial System", which targeted hundreds of secretaries and authors of legal and legal contracts under the pretext of "violating their jobs and forging documents" and depositing them in its prisons with the aim of confiscating and burglary of public and private property documents. The process of buying and selling real estate was prohibited without the prior approval of the regime headed by the leader, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, which enabled him to seize large areas of land in Sanaa and the rest of the governorates.
To justify the arrest of the secretaries, the militias claimed that they were accused of land looting issues. However, judicial sources close to the secretaries detained in the militia’s prisons denied these accusations, and revealed the militias’ pressure on them to hand over ownership documents to their political opponents, opponents of the coup, with the aim of simplifying them.
The judiciary is a Houthi tool to undermine their opponents
The militias, within the framework of the project of the state’s authorities and institutions, transformed the judiciary into a tool to undermine their opponents by issuing arbitrary and illegal rulings from the criminal and appellate courts, most of which sentenced their opponents to death. It also appointed a judicial guard - illegal - with the aim of confiscating their homes, property and money, and charged them with one charge: "aiding aggression and high treason", in reference to the Arab coalition.
At the time, human rights organizations condemned the death sentences issued by the terrorist Houthi militia, and stressed that these practices reflected the exclusionary mentality that was deeply involved in violating human rights in light of an alarming international silence, noting that these sentences violated the principles of fair trial.
It stressed that those courts that issue these unjust rulings are ineffective and void in accordance with the principles of law, as they are subject to the supervision of an armed group, and their rulings cannot be relied upon, as the Houthi militia relies on the rulings of the judicial authorities it controls as a cover for its violations against its political opponents.
