Washington lists the Houthi group on one list with "Al Qaeda, ISIS and Al-Nusra
English - Sunday 22 December 2019 الساعة 01:20 pm
aden., newsyemen
The US State Department has announced that it has listed the Houthi group, the Iranian arm in Yemen, among the list of groups that violate religious freedom.
The State Department confirmed, in a statement, that the Houthi group, along with ten other groups, such as Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS, and Boko Haram, were added to the list on Friday by the American Committee for International Religious Freedom.
The United States, along with international human rights organizations, has regularly expressed concern about the Houthis' handling of religious minorities such as the Baha'is.
The Houthi militia practiced major violations against the Baha'i community in Yemen, and its affiliated courts sentenced to death leaders of the sect, and the Houthi militia practiced an intellectual war against all those opposed to its directions and imposed great restrictions on mosques and schools for memorizing the Holy Quran.
Last September, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution in September condemning the Houthis for their persecution of Baha'is on the basis of their beliefs.
The decision was based on the report issued by the group of prominent international and regional experts on Yemen, which concluded that the Houthis continued to "persecute the Baha'is on the basis of their faith, including by detaining them and accusing them of apostasy, publicly ridiculing the followers of the Baha'i faith in legal files, stigmatizing them with demons, issuing death sentences and threatening their supporters ".
