The situation in Syria imposed itself on Yemen, raising fears among the Houthi leaders, who resorted to launching campaigns of arrests among civilians and issuing threatening and intimidating speeches by the group’s leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, and his assistants against the Yemenis.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms revealed that the Houthi militia carried out a new campaign of repression against 17 activists and young people from various neighborhoods of Sanaa because of their expression of joy over the victory of the Syrian people and the departure of the Bashar al-Assad regime on social media pages.

The network stated that these practices reflect the Houthi militia’s concern about the repercussions of the situation in Syria on the areas under its control, and its fear of the outbreak of a similar popular uprising that would end its existence, which prompted it to intensify the deployment of its security and military elements in the streets and neighborhoods of Sanaa during the past days, as part of an ongoing campaign to muzzle Mouths and the suppression of freedoms.

The militia leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, attacked the Syrian factions in a speech (Thursday), claiming that his group is not Bashar al-Assad, and he will not allow an uprising to break out against his militias, issuing a number of threats against anyone who tries to rise up against his militias.

The Houthi militia forced the students of Sana'a University to go out with its militia by force in demonstrations called for by the militia leader, threatening anyone who fails to attend that they will fail in their university studies.

On the other hand, Yemeni human rights activists said that the kidnapped Ahmed Al-Sharabi died under torture in the Houthi prisons in the city of Al-Saleh, east of Taiz, which the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Yemeni government, Muammar Al-Eryani, described as a “heinous crime” that is added to the militia’s record of violations and crimes against... Humanity, and reflects its brutal nature and its lack of commitment to any humanitarian law or standards.

Al-Eryani stressed that the kidnapping of Al-Sharabi and his forced detention in inhumane conditions, before they asked his family on December 11 to come to receive his body after his death under torture shows indifference to the lives of Yemenis, and brings back a reminder of the continuing tragedy of thousands of detainees and forcibly disappeared people in militia detention centers, including... Including women and children