Report of the National Committee on Houthi violations

The victim, Nesma Muohammed, says: My father paid a ransom to the Houthis 3 million Yemeni Rials to get me out of detention. #HouthisWarOnWomen#IWD2021

Nesma, confirms that she was raped for the second time while she was blindfolded, then she collapsed and tried to commit suicide, but she was taken for the third time.

Women in Houthi prisons were subjected to verbal torture of insults, demeaning and psychological torture

The victim,Nesma Mohammed, says After I was compulsory to attend cultural sessions a week,I was called to his rooms where there was a man nicknamed Abu Hashem and he raped me, and I was crying and begging him not to do it in vain.

The victim, Nesma Mohammed, says: I was beaten by the Houthis and taken by force.

There have been cases of suicide for detained girls in the central prison in Sanaa. The Houthis did not allow medical examination of the detainees and the investigation of the causes of deaths inside the detention centers.

Women in Houthi prisons were subjected to all kinds of physical torture, including beatings with sticks and electric wires, slapped, strangled, and drowned in water.

Faten (a pseudonym), one of the survivors, kept me in a grave-like cell located underground, measuring about one by one meter, with no ventilation and no bathroom, and I was deprived of food and drink for long periods.

Fawzia Hizam is a survivor from Houthi prisons. She was taken from her home in the middle of the night to the Houthi political office. She was detained for 11 months and was physically tortured with burning and electric shocks.

During the year 2019, the Houthis announced they had arrested 44 prostitution networks, in which there were at least 400 women, according to their statements, and this is a false accusation.

Faten (a pseudonym) says: “The Houthis asked me to spy on their behalf on ministers in the Houthi government itself, but I refused and they continued to torture me with electric shocks

Houthis deliberately fabricated the accusation of prostitution against activists in a conservative society in order to blow up their future and destroy their families

Another survivor, who refused to reveal her name, says that one of the methods of torture that the Houthis use in their prisons is burning and electrocuting the genitals with electric shock, which destroys their lives forever.

Houthis imposed violent punishments against women, strangely enough, on Yemeni society, quite similar to what al-Qaeda and ISIS impose in the areas they control and where their culture prevails.

The terrorist Houthi militia has introduced a new type of punishment for women violating the hair shaving in order to further humiliate the steadfast Yemeni woman.

Houthi militia, in its criminal practices against women, relies on Houthi religious fatwas that are rooted in these practices.

On January 28, 2019, the security apparatus of Houthi arrested Wafa al-Naami the resident director of the Saferworld organization and placed her in the National Security Agency’s prison for two months.

Testimonies documented 71 cases of rape in prisons, as the Houthi security supervisor works to distribute female prisoners to Houthi leaders, including Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi himself and others

Wafaa Muhammad al-Shabibi, 25 years old, was arrested on November 24, 2018 when she was coming from Aden and the Houthi militia threw her in a prison Political Security in Dhamar, with her three children.

Hundreds of cases of arrest and detention of Yemeni and foreign women working in the humanitarian, media, and human rights fields and political activists were monitored by the Houthi terrorist militia.

Yemeni women have become a direct target of the Houthi group, as women are forced from homes, markets, marches and demonstrations on various charges and they are transferred to criminal investigations.

Wafa Muhammad al-Shabibi and her children were released only after a month and a half of arrest, torture and abuse that not even her children were spared.

Survivors of Houthi prisons reported they were later forced to go to the fronts to cook for Houthi fighters, deliver weapons, carry out dirty tasks, and force them to have sex “rape.” #HouthisWarOnWomen#IWD2021