Houthis break into woman’s activist house in Sana'a
English - Saturday 26 January 2019 الساعة 09:55 am
Sana’a – NewsYemen.net
Houthi militias stormed on Friday a house of the lawyer and the activist woman Arwa Ahmed Ali Ahmed in Sana'a, witnesses and a local source said.
Witnesses added that Houthi gunmen stormed the house after the shooting the gate of the house.
The Houthi gunmen looted the contents of the house, and tried to settle inside it before people intervened to persuade them to leave the house.
The activist Arwa Ahmed said in a press statement, that the incident came after receiving direct threats from the leader of the Houthi called "Abu Yahya al-Muayad and a responsible for the women's sector of the Houthi militias called Um Muhammad al-Khazan.
Commenting on the incident, Ahmed explained in a press statement that a raid on her home came two weeks after receiving direct and indirect threats from Houthi leader Abu Yahya al-Muayad and Um al-Khazan, the leader of the Houthi women's sector.
She said she had received a phone call from al-Muayad in which he threatened to abduct her, torture her, kill her husband and hurt her entire family if she did not stop "incitement and employment with the coalition countries.
The incident came after the Yemeni Organization to Combat Human Trafficking (YOCT) uncovered shocking information about 120 girls and women kidnapped were by the Houthi militias and forcibly hiding them in secret prisons and subjected to a series of abuses and torture.
