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Rights Seminar: Houthi militias blamed for killing 671 detainees, torturing over 17,000 more in jails

[27/02/2025 12:50]

GENEVA-SABA
A human rights symposium held the Iranian regime-allied terrorist Houthis militias for killing of 671 detainees in the prisons during the time from 2014 until the mid of 2022.

The victims were killed deliberately and directly and indirectly as a result of torture and medical negligence, including 98 detainees who were injected with toxic materials and passed away few days later of their release.

A report of the Yemeni Organization for Prisoners and the kidnappers indicated that the Houthi terrorist militias committed more than 17,600 physical torture cases in the prisons, and 2,002 cases of enforced disappearances in the Houthis' jails, including 125 children and 16 women, during the period from September 2015 to December 202

The seminar, organized by the Humanitarian League for Rights, on the sidelines of the meetings of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council in the Swiss city of Geneva, entitled (horror behind bars), highlighted the ongoing violations and torture against the detainees and the enforced disappeared persons in the prisons of the Houthi terrorist