Checkpoints set up by Iranian-backed Houthi coup militias have become a nightmare for travelers in militia-controlled areas of Yemen, owing to militia blackmail, interrogation and looting.
According to the Yemeni army website, since the militias invaded the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2014, they have established a system parallel to the general statute, in a move that they wanted, among other things, to expel money, and bring it by all means, and to open the door for greedy owners to join their ranks.
It is estimated that hundreds of Houthi spots stretch along roads where all means of extortion are practiced, and the charges are fabricated by militias, a method that the travelers are looted in a move through which their money and possessions are looted, and beatings, arrests, and imprisonment are the fate of those who do not bow to the blackmail practiced by Houthi elements.
According to the Yemeni army website, there is another picture practiced by militia elements, which is the abduction of some travelers for several days, and their families are informed to raise money as a ransom in exchange for their release.Jurists considered what the militias are doing in flagrant violation of the most basic rights, which is the free movement between cities and governorates. town.
According to local sources, the members of the Houthi checkpoints do not hesitate to make accusations against travelers and find for themselves a pretext for fabricating problems during the interrogation, such as telling the person who stopped him: «Why raise your voice?», And this is enough charge to imprison, beat and trap the traveler.
Local sources point out that the militias impose royalties on merchant trucks and fuel tankers of private companies to make huge money from behind, and observers say that the checkpoints have become a source of income and funding under the name of security measures, until it later turned into a fixed resource and source of income estimated daily revenues of millions In the war economy, checkpoints have become an important financial resource for militias, and royalties are collected through extortion of merchants or passengers' trucks and intercity vehicles. Som imposed by the points that Huthi, and the amounts determined by the whims of militia elements at each point, and refrain from payment penalties begin to prevent traffic and end to book the vehicle or truck, and released only after payment of a ransom, leading to the kidnapping and torture.