The Human Rights League and the Women for Peace Coalition in Yemen reported that Houthi militias kidnapped 1,781 Yemeni women from December 2017 to September 2022 during a human rights symposium held on the sidelines of the 51st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva , Switzerland. .By law and without any legal process.
Four participants spoke at the symposium to shed light on the brutal abuses by the Houthi militia, Lisa Al-Badawi, activist and human rights activist, Dr. Khuriya Mashkhour, former Yemeni Minister for Human Rights Noura Al-Jaravi, human rights activist, and (F. Al- Mahvit) A living witness, and the seminar was led by Gamdan Al-Yusifi, a journalist and human rights activist.
The symposium discussed the issues faced by women in Houthi militia prisons, Iranian weapons in Yemen and their use as a pressure map against all its opponents, pointing to the recent arrest of 74 girls from Hajj province and their imprisonment in Nusiriya’s central prison, Hajj.
She pointed to the death sentences against women, as there were 6 death sentences against 6 women, including a minor.
The symposium highlighted the need to focus on militia crimes against women in light of the continuing pattern of arrest, abduction, torture and rape of women in areas under its control, the intensity of which is alarming, calling for the release of all women in detention. in official and secret prisons and prisoners in the police, criminal investigation, political security and national security departments of Sanaa, Dhamar, Radaa Castle and Hajja Jail.
