On Saturday, the Houthi militia presented a number of kidnappers, including journalists, to the penal court in Sanaa in a comic step to try them on trumped-up charges, in which the prosecutor could not prove, prompting the judge to postpone the trial to next week due to insufficient evidence.

Yemeni human rights activists and judicial sources told the newspaper of Okaz that all the abductees are civilians, including journalists Hamzah al-Jubaihi, Essam Bilghith, Tawfiq al-Mansouri, Salah al-Qaedi, Haitham al-Shehab, Abdelkhaliq Amran, Hassan Anab, Hisham Tarmoum, Hisham al-Youssifi, Akram al-Walidi and Harith Hamid. A comic trial was conducted against all of them, in which the trial showed the absurdity of the militia and the great crime it is committing against them.

The sources added that the judge asked the public prosecution to bring a file of charges against some journalists, but the prosecutor apologized saying: “We asked the national security to provide us with some important evidence, but they did not respond to us,” and according to that, the judge postponed the trial to the upcoming Saturday.

Most of the journalists have been abducted by the militia for more than three years, some of whom were forcibly disappeared and have not been recognized by the militia and it has refused to let their families meet or even know their fate.

On the other hand, human rights and security sources reported that the Houthi militia, with the help of Iranian experts, is exercising the worst crimes of torture and humiliation against the abductees in the prison of Habra, some of which represented in sexual assault on the abductees, and this act is contrary to religious and moral values, at the same time, the prison of Habra has become known as the new Abu Ghraib prison in Yemen.

The same sources reported that Iranian torture experts, who were involved in the torture of Iraqis, ordered the militia to force the abductees to take off their clothes and photograph them in that situation, as well as threatening them that they would order their women's militias to break into their homes and bring their families to prison and rape them if they do not confess to fabricated charges against them.

The sources pointed out that some of the abductees, who were allowed to meet with some lawyers separately, reported that there were direct sexual attacks on some of the abductees in the Habra prison, according to Okaz newspaper.

In this context, one of the leaders separated from the Houthi group revealed imminent splits of senior leaders representing the tribal wing inside the rebel group.

In statements to the «Gulf», the dissident leader confirmed that four of the leaders of the tribal wing inside the Houthi group actually withdrew from the fighting fronts with numbers of their loyal fighters, in protesting against the militia stormed the house of Sheikh Aziz Bin Saghir, who is one of the most prominent tribes of Bakil, which is the second largest Yemeni tribe.

The dissident leader pointed out that two leaders of the tribal wing refused to carry out orders issued by the leadership of the Houthi group to go to the front of Saada, where they asked the participation of leaders of the wing of Hashemite, who are the most influential within the Houthi group, in the fighting on the fronts like the leaders of the tribal wing, noting that there is an escalating schism within the leadership frameworks of the group.