Crimes committed by the Houthis — Torture
Sheikh Abdrabbuh Daji died in Houthi custody in Sanaa on 5 February 2022, rights sources told Yemen Shabab Net. They said he had been abducted from Daris market in northern Sa
The Houthis abducted journalist Younis Abdulsalam from a Sanaa street in early August 2021 and held him for more than sixteen months, Yemen Shabab Net reported. His lawyer Abd
Houthi security forces arrested actress and model Intisar al-Hammadi at a checkpoint in Shamlan. Amnesty International documented blindfolded interrogation, physical and verba
Omar Ahmad al-Samei died on 16 November 2020, according to a Hospital 48 report date quoted by Yemen Shabab Net in December 2022. Local sources said his family continued payin
Muhammad al-Izzi Qabel died at al-Riyada hospital in Dhamar on 7 June 2020, days after release from Houthi detention. Yemen Shabab Net cited a source close to the family attri
The Houthis attacked women demonstrating in Sanaa on 21 March 2018 and detained at least sixty, according to UN experts. The investigation documented torture and ill-treatment
Gunmen identifying themselves as Ansarullah stormed a meeting at Ibb Garden Hotel on 13 October 2015 and detained at least 25 participants. The meeting concerned delivering wa
Men identifying themselves as Political Security agents arrested student Abdul-ilah Saylan outside a Sanaa café on 18 August 2015, then searched his family home. The family wa
Armed men raided Zahwan al-Barti’s home on 10 August 2015 and took him to al-Ulfi police station. His family had no information on his whereabouts for roughly three and a half
The Houthis raided Qasr al-Ahlam hotel in Sanaa and abducted nine journalists working there because electricity and internet were available. During detention they were subject
Taxi driver Sami al-Hashidi was detained on 15 May 2015 while returning to his home in Amran city and taken to a stadium used by the Houthis for detention. About a month later
UN experts documented a sixteen-year-old boy held at Political Security prison in Sanaa from May 2015 and subjected to physical torture and sexual violence during 2015–2017 to
