The terrorist practices committed by the Houthi militia against citizens varied in its areas of control and in the areas close to the raging war fronts. These crimes have affected various segments of society and were distributed over several governorates. Among the most prominent of these crimes are the indiscriminate bombing with ballistic missiles and drones on IDP camps and residential neighborhoods, in addition to field executions, the continued abducting and torture of women in prisons, child recruitment, and other crimes and violations committed by the terrorist militia on a daily basis, amid shameful silence by the international community.

Terrorism against the people of Hayma, Taiz:

At the beginning of the year 2021, the terrorist Houthi militia committed heinous crimes against the residents of the Al-Hayma area of the Al-Ta’iziyah Directorate, east of the city of Taiz. And these crimes included shelling villages with heavy and medium weapons, raiding homes and arresting residents. The campaign resulted in the killing and wounding of dozens of civilians and the abducting of dozens.

The militia also imposed a complete siege on al-Hayma and established a military site in the village of al-Sayila with the aim of bombing houses, farms and civilians with various weapons. And these crimes reached their climax when the militia hung the bodies of a number of the people of the area whom they had killed and crucified them on trees for several days before allowing their families to bury those corpses.

Violations committed against women:

During the year 2021, the Houthi militia committed systematic violations against women, including the forced arrest and torture of hundreds of women in Houthi detention.

In its report, the Organization of Sam for Rights and Liberties said that Yemeni women are still subjected to various types of oppression, violations and humiliation, and spoke of the existence of thousands of painful stories that embody the extent of the suffering women live in Houthi-controlled areas.

Another human rights report also revealed that the Houthi militia committed grave violations against 1,181 abducted Yemeni women, ranging from murder, torture, disappearance, mutilation, sexual violence and rape, stressing that these violations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This came in a report by the 8 March Yemeni Union Women, the Coalition of Yemen for Peace in Yemen, the Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking and the National Coalition of Independent Women.

The report stated that "since the first appearance of their coup in September 2014, the Houthi militias have deliberately sought in every way to remove the protection of women, and have practiced physical abuse against them, have reached the point of killing, physical assault, abducting and sexual violence."

The report indicated that "After the events of December 2, 2017, which led to the killing of the former president and leaders of the General Congress Party, the violations committed against women have increased and there has been a systematic and tirected targeting of them by the Houthis."

It made it clear that "the number of female detainees who are in Houthi prisons has reached 1181," noting that "they have been subjected to various violations, including 274 cases of enforced disappearance, 292 female human rights activists and the educational sector, and 246 cases of female relief and humanitarian workers."

And the report confirmed the documentation of "71 cases of rape and 4 cases of suicide in militia prisons."

It noted that "the number of detained girls under the age of 18 has reached more than 293 cases, in addition to documenting dozens of cases of male and female children who were detained with their detained mothers, and among the detainees are 8 women belonging to the Baha'i sect."

The report confirmed that the abducted and detained women were subjected to all kinds of physical torture such as beatings with sticks and electric wires, slapping in the face, cutting breath through suffocation, drowning in water basins, in addition to verbal torture such as insults, contempt and psychological torture, with the aim of extracting recognition for things they did not commit, in addition to the fabrication of the malicious and immoral accusations of the detainees against female detainees (prostitution networks).

Brutal crimes in Sanaa:

And in May 2021, a human rights report revealed that the Houthi militia committed more than four thousand human rights violations in the capital Sana’a during the first quarter of 2021 only.

And the report issued by the Human Rights Office in the Capital Municipality said that the frequency of violations and crimes committed by the Houthi militia in Sanaa increased significantly.

The report monitored 21 types of violations and crimes that ranged from extrajudicial killing, killing under torture, abduction, arbitrary disappearance, political trials, torture, cruel treatment in prisons, physical abuse and imposition of house arrest, in addition to violations against the rights of children and women, obliteration of identity, incitement to violence, the pillage of aid and forced displacement.

And the cases of extrajudicial killings amounted to 386 cases, while the cases of murder under torture amounted to 2 cases and the cases of injuries amounted to 184 various injuries.

Execution of 9 innocent people from Tihama:

On September 18, 2021, the Yemenis were on a date with the most heinous crime committed by the terrorist Houthi militia in the capital, Sana'a, where it brought to mind the field executions that were committed by the ethnic imams against the Yemenis.

The Houthi militia has executed nine people from the sons of Tihama, accusing them of participating in the killing of the militia leader, Saleh al-Sammad. The execution took place in the center of the capital, Sanaa, in light of strict security measures and the wide spread of militia militants. The execution of the victims took place after years of torture in prisons and farcical trials. And torture in prisons has caused in paralyzed a child among those executed by the militia. Another person also died under torture whom the militia accused of the same malicious charge, a charge intended to cover up the conflict between the militia's wings. Al-Sammad's death comes within the struggle of the militia's wings.

- Crimes in Marib against the displaced and civilians:

Since October 2021, the frequency of crimes committed by the Houthi militia against the displaced and civilians in the Marib Governorate has increased hysterically, which are crimes that exceeded in their brutality the crimes of the largest terrorist organizations such as “ISIS” and “Al-Qaeda”, especially in the Abdiya Directorate after nearly a month of its siege and then intrusion into it. And among the crimes committed by the militia there: Liquidations and field executions that affected even children, the elderly, the wounded and the mentally ill, in addition to random abductions and turning government buildings into prisons and detention centers in which prisoners are brutally tortured.

The militia also continued to bombard the displaced persons’ camps and residential neighborhoods in and around the city of Marib with ballistic missiles and drones, which resulted in the killing and wounding of a large number of civilians, including women and children. It also caused in forcing thousands of civilians to flee from some Directorates of the Governorate towards the city of Marib, under extremely complex humanitarian conditions.

The Executive Unit of the IDP Camps Administration in Marib Governorate said that more than 8,000 families have been displaced from the Directorates of southern Marib due to the escalation of fighting since the beginning of last September.

And the continuation of crimes of the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Marib and other Yemeni Governorates has sparked widespread anger in human rights and government circles, in conjunction with calls for UN and international intervention to protect civilians and provide humanitarian aid to the displaced, whose displacement has been repeated several times due to the militia’s bombing of the camps for the displaced with artillery, especially near areas confrontations.

- Crimes in Hodeidah:

And in November 2021, the terrorist Houthi militia carried out a campaign of arrests and liquidations in the areas it controlled in Hodeidah, and committed crimes amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilians in the Hodeidah Governorate, and arrested more than 200 civilians, most of whom were young people, and executed 4 civilians by cutting with a knife in areas and villages in the Directorates of Al-Hali, Al-Durayhimi, Al-Tuhayta and Al-Saleh city, and then they threw their heads on public roads to intimidate the residents and push them to flee, in violations similar to the crimes of the terrorist organization ISIS.

And the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights revealed documenting the torture of civilians who were not directly involved in any fighting acts, as well as the ill-treatment of captured fighters.

It pointed to the displacement and flight of thousands of civilians for fear of Houthi reprisals and warned of the gravity of violations and abuses committed by the terrorist Houthi militia in Hodeidah, and called on the international community to classify the Houthi militia as a terrorist group, prosecute its leaders and put them on the international sanctions list.