Abdullah Abu Deif (Cairo, Aden)
A human rights report prepared by the Coalition of Women for Peace in Yemen to participate in the Human Rights Conference in Geneva confirmed that hundreds of Yemeni women are subjected to grave violations in the prisons of the terrorist group “Al-Houthi”.
The report, of which Al-Ittihad obtained a copy, indicated that the number of female detainees reached 1,421, including 504 detainees in the central prison in Sana’a, and 291 cases of enforced disappearance in secret prisons, in addition to 193 cases of receiving illegal sentences on accusations of espionage and others, while The “Houthis” issued death sentences for 6 women who did not commit what led to this cruel punishment.
The report indicates that the terrorist group “Al-Houthi”, in its arrest of women, relied on bringing together all sects in Yemen to blackmail everyone, as seven Baha’i women, one Jew and two Christians were arrested, and this intransigence led to the suicide of about 9 complete cases in the central prison in Sana’a, due to violations jurisprudence within it.
The report notes 184 arrests of female relief and humanitarian workers, along with 71 children who were arrested with their mothers, with the Houthi group continuing its systematic violence against Yemeni women, whether by violence or imprisonment, which has continued throughout the current year despite the agreements.
The report documents cases of physical torture of women, ranging from beatings with sticks and electric wires, electrocution, stopping breathing by suffocation, drowning in water, standing on open cans for hours, starving and being prevented from eating and drinking for long hours.
The physical and psychological violence included preventing exposure to the sun, ventilation, humiliation, verbal torture, humiliation, slapping and forcing them to confess to charges they did not commit or immoral charges, in addition to recording videos in which they confess to espionage, while depriving them of their rights to visit their families.
The Coalition of Women for Peace in Yemen helped release 131 girls detained in Houthi prisons, through local and tribal mediation and media advocacy campaigns through channels.
Nora Jarawi, coordinator of the Women for Peace Coalition in Yemen, indicated that they contributed to the transfer of 57 girls for psychological and medical treatment to Cairo, most of them with their children, in cooperation with the partners of the Peace Track Initiative, the United Nations Emergency Fund and the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights.
In a statement to Al-Ittihad, she called for the release of all women detainees in official and secret prisons and those detained in police stations, and for criminal investigations and political security in Sana’a, Dhamar, and Radaa Castle, with disclosure of the whereabouts of women detainees and forcibly disappeared persons, and their immediate release.
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