Parliamentarian Ahmed Saif Hashid warned the Houthi militia against delaying their release of Judge Abdul-Wahab Qatran, and vowed to hold a sit-in in front of security and intelligence in Sanaa, Yemen, if he was not released.

Hashid, a member of the House of Representatives in Sanaa, said through his Facebook post: “I will carry out a sit-in in front of the Security and Intelligence headquarters next week if efforts to release Abdul Wahab Qatran fail.”

Movements are being led by parliamentarian Ahmed Saif Hashid, a member of the Houthi Political Council, Sultan Al-Sami, writer Abdul Bari Taher, and a number of human rights activists to release Qatran, who was arrested at the beginning of this week on the grounds of his criticism of the Houthi militia and addressing the militia leader that none of the thirty million Yemenis had harmed him. By fighting the Americans on behalf of the people so that this is used as an excuse to practice oppression, intimidation, terrorism, starvation, and levies.