Houthi group practices brutal tortures against oppositionists

29/7/2012 -


Yasser Ezzi  

Alsahwah.net- A rights group, Hood, that visited the persons who were released on Saturday, pointing out that their conditions are very deteriorated and that they were transferred to hospitals.

Hood said it will issue a report about tortures practiced by the Houthi group.

For its part, Raqeeb human rights organization denounced torturing of the four persons, affirming that the Houthi group used to torture protesters in Sana'a.

Raqeeb said that these violations are systemically carried out on basis of sectarianism.  

It called President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi and the interim government to shoulder their responsibilities and protect civilians in Saada, demanding to form an investigation committee to probe violations committed by the group.  

It further appealed to local and international human rights groups to put pressures on the Houthi group and force it to end its violations.

Meanwhile, the state-run Al-Jumhoria Newspaper reported on Saturday that the group seeks to recruit Yemeni independent youth in Sana'a and Taiz with the aim of fighting in Saada, pointing out that it offered salaries of YR70,000 a month.

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.