A recent human rights report has documented 2,500 violations committed by the Houthi group against residents of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, over the past two years (2022 and 2023). The report, issued by the Human Rights Office in Sana’a yesterday, detailed 14 types of violations, including killings, injuries, torture, kidnappings, looting of public and private property, child recruitment, violations against children and women, forced displacement, and assaults on judicial institutions.
The report documented the killing of 38 civilians, including 20 who died under torture and 18 who were shot directly. Additionally, there were 261 documented cases of injury and physical assault, 284 cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance, and 251 cases of torture and degrading treatment.
The report also highlighted growing public anger in Sana’a against the Houthis due to their policies of starvation, repression, and systematic impoverishment. The Houthis continue to loot employee salaries, militarize civilian life, restrict freedom of expression and public freedoms, and target the republican system.
Fahmi Al-Zubairi, Director of the Human Rights Office in Sana’a, stated that the Houthis’ continued and inventive violations against the Yemeni people reflect the group’s failure to impose its sectarian project on the population, as reported by the Yemeni News Agency “Saba.”
Meanwhile, the “Equality Organization for Rights and Freedoms” reported yesterday that it had documented the Houthis’ kidnapping of 33 civilians in the areas under their control in recent days, following calls to celebrate the anniversary of the September 26 Revolution.
In a related context, Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Badr Abdel Aty, reaffirmed Egypt’s support for the legitimacy in Yemen, the independence of state institutions, and Yemen’s unity and territorial integrity. During a meeting in Washington with the U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, Abdel Aty emphasized the significance of Yemen’s security and stability, as well as the Red Sea and maritime security, as top priorities for Egypt’s national security and the Arab region.
Spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Tamim Khallaf, stated that Abdel Aty reiterated Egypt’s support for all efforts aimed at reaching a comprehensive political solution to the Yemeni crisis based on the Gulf initiative, its mechanisms, the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference, and UN Security Council Resolution 2216, to meet the aspirations of the Yemeni people and end their humanitarian suffering.
