A member of the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations, Bassem al-Absi, confirmed that the Iranian-backed al-Houthi terrorist militias have killed 14,000 Yemeni civilians since their coup against legitimacy.The coalition held a photo exhibition at the Geneva International Conference Center to monitor militia violations.
In a speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Al-Absi said that the humanitarian situation in Yemen is becoming more tense, with the coup taking control of the capital and their constant quest to open new combat fronts throughout the Republic of Yemen.
"In the four years since the coup, the militias have killed more than 14,000 civilians, including children, women and the elderly, by hunting, planting mines, unlawful executions and dying under torture. There are more than 3,500 detainees in militia jails." He explained that the Houthi militias invaded the attack on all state facilities, destroyed infrastructure and private and public property, blew up houses and places of worship, violated childhood through forced recruitment, killing and maiming, and deprived children of education and health, which impedes the development process, and contradicts the objectives of the Human Rights Council in promoting the right Sustainable development. He called on the Human Rights Council to redouble its efforts to put pressure on the militias to implement the Council's resolutions on Yemen, in particular Security Council Resolution 2216, to abide by the principles of international humanitarian law and human rights conventions, to immediately halt indiscriminate attacks against the population and civilian objects, and to immediately stop laying mines of all kinds.
The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations, in a symposium organized on the sidelines of the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland, in cooperation with the World Federation of Yemeni Communities, that it monitored 455 cases of torture committed by Houthi coup militias, during the period from September 2014 to December 2018 He pointed out that most cases of torture were recorded in the capital secretariat by 295 cases, followed by prisons in Sana'a governorate by 86 cases, followed by Ibb governorate by 74 cases. He pointed out that 170 victims died of torture, including nine children, two women and six elderly, the latest of which was Ali Abdullah Hassan al-Ammar, who died under torture in Houthi prisons, a son of Hodeidah.
Human rights activist Hamdan Al-Ali reviewed at the symposium a number of cases of torture committed by Houthi militias, which affected politicians, human rights activists, journalists and media, stressing that the abductees in Houthi prisons are subjected to torture, which often ends in death or permanent disability, pointing to the journalist Anwar al-Roken, who died of torture two days after his release from al-Saleh prison in eastern Taiz.
Al-Ali noted that civilians in areas under Houthi control are subjected to various attacks and harassment at border crossings, entrances to cities, and checkpoints. And work to stop abuses by Houthi militias against civilians.
During the symposium, the chairman of the German-Yemen Forum for Rights and Freedoms, Khalid Al-Afif, addressed the ideologies of torture used by the Houthi militias to terrorize and acquiesce in the Yemeni society rejecting its racial, sectarian, and repressive ideology.
Al-Afif pointed out that the militias deliberately terrorized people by torturing them in their prisons, then taking them out in horrific cases, and throwing them in public roads or in hospitals.
Al-Afif stressed that the international human rights organizations ignored the violations committed against civilians, and encouraged Houthi militias to continue to terrorize Yemenis, to develop methods of torture, killing, bombing and recruitment of children, and to use detainees and forcibly disappeared as human shields.
In her seminar paper, activist Noura al-Jarwi said that Houthi militias committed 13,000 cases of violence against women in areas under their control between December 2017 and October 2018.Violations ranged from murder, shelling and injury, mutilation, detention, and detention. Abduction and torture, sexual violence, mine victims, denial of education, health care and displacement of hundreds of thousands of women.
It noted that the Women for Peace Alliance documented 303 abductions and subsequent abuses, as well as 44 cases of enforced disappearance against women in Yemen by Houthi coup militias, and that 288 women remain in Houthi militia prisons, subjected to torture, assault and cruel treatment.
The Yemeni Coalition held a photo exhibition at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which it presented the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen, the civilian casualties caused by violations of the Houthi terrorist militias, and the bombing of densely populated residential neighborhoods.The images of the exhibition summarized the violations of the militias against the children and people of Yemen, and the human suffering and tragedies they caused.
- 3,500 detainees in militia prisons and monitoring
455 cases of torture and 303 cases of abduction
For women .. committed by the Houthis.