The United States of America confirmed that the recent sanctions it imposed on the Houthi Prisoners' Committee and its head were based on conclusive evidence proving their involvement in committing gross human rights violations in Yemen.

The US Embassy in Yemen said, in a tweet on its account on the “X” platform, on Wednesday, that the United States does not impose sanctions without evidence, as is the case with the “Houthi National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs” affiliated with the Houthis, and its head, Abdul Qadir Hassan Yahya Al-Murtada, “Because they are directly linked to violations against prisoners held in detention centers run by the group in Yemen.”

The embassy attached its tweet to pictures it said were of “the batons that Al-Murtada used to threaten those who wanted to celebrate the September 26 Revolution,” in addition to a scar on the head of one of the detainees in the group’s prisons.

The embassy indicated that “spreading lies and propaganda videos does not even constitute a defense for Al-Murtada,” as there is much evidence proving that he committed serious violations against detainees in the group’s private prisons under the administration of the committee he heads.

On December 9, the US Treasury Department included the Houthi Prisoners' Committee and its head, Abdulqader Al-Murtada, on the sanctions list "for their involvement in violations against prisoners detained in detention centers run by the group in Yemen."

The Ministry justified its inclusion of Al-Murtada on the list, saying that he was “directly involved in torturing prisoners, practicing other forms of brutal, inhuman and degrading treatment against them, or punishing detainees in the group’s prisons. He also runs an entity (the Prisoners’ Committee) whose members participated in committing serious human rights violations during The period of his management of this entity"