Alsahwah.net- Militias
of the Houthi group arrested five merchants on Monday after they refused to pay
taxes to the group, local sources affirmed.
They said
that arrested merchants are Abdul-Fatah al-Maazi, Majed Saleh, Abudl-Malik
Zeyad, Fawaz Abdul-Malik and Othman Haian, pointing out that the group imposes
high taxes on residents of Saada.
They said
that the Houthi militias threaten all those who refuse to pay taxes with killing,
arrest and torture.
Residentsof Saada governorate have complained that the
Houthi group imposed high taxes on them, pointing out that the group collected
about YR1,5 taxes in August.
They spelt out that the group forced merchants to pay millions without giving them any receipts.
A rights
group, Hood, that visited the persons who were released on Saturday after being subjected to brutal torture by Houthi militias, 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 outan 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.
