Houthis storm schools in Hajja

28/7/2012 -


Alsahwah.net- The Houthi group stormed on Thursday schools in Kahlan Al-Sharaf of Hajja governorate , held students and forced them to read their own manuals.

Local sources told Alsahwah.net that the fighters positioned on a top of a mountain , pointing out that the residents repelled them and forced them to withdraw.  

The group carries out  an arrest campaign against of local residents of Saada governorate for unknown reasons, local sources said.

The sources affirmed that scores of Houthi fighters and armed vehicles stormed a village in Saada and took residents to unknown places.

According to locals, the residents were arrested as they were affiliated to political sides that contradict the Houthi group.

Houthi militants threatened residents of areas after media outlets started to release news stories about violations practiced by the Houthi group.

Media sources have stated the Houthi group conducted last in late May an arrest campaign against activists, politicians, teachers, students as well as football players in Saada.

Akhbar Alyawam newspaper quoted an officer of an international human rights group operating in Yemen as saying that he had information about torture and violations practiced in private prisons of the Houthi group against its oppositionists.