A Yemeni court under the control of al-Houthi group in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday sentenced 30 kidnappers of activists and leaders of the Yemeni Rally for Reform Party to death.
The head of the Organization for the Rights and Freedoms in Geneva, Tawfiq al-Humaidi, said that the Specialized Criminal Court issued a death sentence for 31 detainees, adding that among those sentenced to death was Professor of linguistics at the University of Sana'a Yusuf al-Boab and leader of the Yemeni Rally for Reform, Nasr al-Salami.
The rights activist said that the sentences are not legally binding because they were issued by a court that does not have any legal jurisdiction. A decision to nullify this court was issued by the Supreme Judicial Council in the internationally recognized legal government.
He explained that these people were arrested in 2015, and were forcibly hidden for a year and a half, and were tortured and did not have the right to full defense, noting that these provisions are preliminary and there is space for resumption.
For its part, the Association of the Mothers of the abducted in a press statement denounced these provisions, describing them as "non-state", loaded with "the international community, led by the United Nations and its UN envoy, the issue of their abducted children."
The Association also blamed the Houthi group for the lives and safety of all those abducted and forcibly disappeared.
The Houthis accuse many of these abductees of forming cells to carry out bombings and assassinations, raise the coordinates of air raids, and support and support what they call "aggression on Yemen," referring to the Saudi-UAE military alliance, while the kidnappers deny the charges.