The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms reported that the Houthi gang launched a wide arrests campaign that targeted 54 civilians using the Stelink space internet system, in an attempt to control the telecommunications and the Internet in its areas of control.

The network explained in a statement published on its account on the X platform that the campaign focused on homes and commercial stores in several directorates in the kidnapped capital, Sanaa, including the seventy, Moeen, Azal, Al -Tahrir, and Al -Old Sana'a, where dozens of electronic devices were confiscated and exorbitant financial fines were imposed, before transferring the detainees to detention centers without any judicial orders or legal procedures.

She pointed out that this campaign comes in the context of the gang's endeavor to impose its exclusive control on the telecommunications and the Internet, especially with the increasing dependence of citizens on more efficient and freedom technical alternatives, on top of which is the space internet "Starlink", which is a direct threat to its monopoly and practices in monitoring and spying.

The campaign also included academic circles, where students and professors at the Computer College at the University of Sana'a were forced to attend propaganda activities warning of "space internet risks", while preventing any free scientific discussion or trading of independent technology alternatives.

The gang fears the ability of the space internet to break its monopoly, especially since this technology breaks the eavesdropping and monitoring operations that it carries out on activists, journalists and human rights organizations, which makes it target users of this service with arbitrary suppression and procedures.