Yemeni governmental and non-governmental reports counted the Houthi militia committing thousands of crimes and violations against residents of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, during the past months. These crimes varied from murder, abducting, arrest, torture, child recruitment, robbery of property and land, raiding homes and institutions by force of arms, and imposing taxes and royalties.

In this context, in the latest report of the Alasima Media Center under the title "6 years of the coup... Collective punishment of Yemenis», the Center documented about 913 crimes of security chaos in the area of the capital, Sanaa, during the period from early January to the end of last August.

According to the report, these crimes were distributed among 53 murders of civilians, 140 crimes of injuring civilians, 220 abducting, 74 crimes of physical assault, 71 raids and armed raiding of various homes, shops and institutions, 144 crimes of seizing civil institutions and homes of opponents by force of arms, land and property robbery, 205 crimes of death sentences against politicians, soldiers, journalists, and activists in violation of the law, and 6 crimes of closing cafes and youth parks by force of arms.

According to the estimates of the team that prepared the report, approximately 10 thousand other crimes occurred in Sana'a during the monitoring period. However, the team was unable to document these crimes as a result of the risks that threaten the lives of human rights monitors and media professionals in light of the brutal repression practiced by the Houthi group against workers in the field of human rights and media professionals in the capital and the rest of the cities controlled by militias.

According to the report, among those crimes that have not been documented, there are crimes such as “thefts, looting, rape, forced recruitment of children and youth and school students, abducting and extortion of women and girls, collecting illegal royalties, job exclusion, forced sectarian education, sectarian courses and the scraping of national identity».

The report said: “Through a process of calculating the average of the crimes documented with their incidents, it becomes clear that 8 crimes occurred in the area of the capital, Sana'a, every 48 hours, which reveals the aggravation of the chaos and fragility of the security situation that the Houthi militias usually resort to covering this by promoting their claim that these crimes are security successes from time to another through its media».

In a related context, another government report documented more than 3 thousand crimes and violations that were practiced by the Houthi group in the capital, Sana'a, between August 30, 2019 and August 26, 2020. The report issued by the Human Rights Office in Sana'a stated that it monitored more than 3,320 violations committed by the Houthis inside prisons, and these violations were distributed between death under torture, arbitrary abducting, enforced disappearance, political trials, injuries, torture, arrests, physical assault, house arrest and violations against children and women.

According to the report of the Monitoring and Documentation Unit affiliated with the Human Rights Office in the capital, Sana'a, there have been 11 cases of murder under torture, and 398 cases of various injuries. While the cases of abducting amounted to 720 incidents, where the Houthi group abducted about 576 men, 122 women and 22 children.

The report pointed out that the various violations committed against children during the same period amounted to 309 violations, while the violations committed against women amounted to more than 326 violations.

The report monitored about 271 cases of enforced disappearance during the monitoring period, while it documented 201 cases of under house arrest by the Houthi militia. The monitoring team has recorded 350 cases of brutal torture inside Houthi prisons and 577 cases of physical abuse.

The report broached that the Houthi group continued in its absurd political trials through which judgments were issued against opponents and activists, and these trials have reached more than 157 trials. The monitoring team revealed the high frequency of violations and crimes committed by the Houthi group in the capital, Sana'a, during the period of preparing this report, on a daily basis and in a brutal manner, especially those crimes that are committed inside prisons such as enforced disappearance, torture, cruel treatment, and death under torture.

The report also pointed out that the militias used various means such as repression, violence, abducting and torture against everyone who opposes their approach, in addition to that these militias follow a policy of starvation and impoverishment by plundering relief aid and medicines, stopping the payment of salaries of state employees, plundering state resources and revenues and imposing royalties for the benefit of their war effort and also to commemorate their never-ending sectarian events.

The report called for the speedy disclosure of all those forcibly disappeared in the militia prisons, an end to the practice of violations and crimes against citizens, politicians and opponents, the abolition of political death sentences and the release of the abducted in Sana'a immediately without restrictions or conditions.

In mid-March, another government report revealed that more than 18,000 crimes and violations committed by the militias in Sana'a were documented in just one year.