Al-Houthi exploits the Al-Saleh Mosque to spy and collect information about worshiping women through women's militias
English - Sunday 22 December 2019 الساعة 01:27 pm
aden, newsyemen
The Houthi militia has transformed Al-Saleh Mosque into a security barrack through which it spies and collects information about worshiping women, in a manner that violates all the provisions of the constitution, applicable laws, and public freedoms
Women's sources in the capital, Sanaa, told Newsyemen: The Houthi militia has formed a special security squad of its women's militias known as (Zainabiyat) and assigned them the task of searching all the hesitant or women entering the Al-Saleh Mosque to perform the prayer, especially Friday prayers every week.
The sources added, the inspection process that the women entering the Al-Saleh Mosque to perform the prayers includes recording all information about the property and contents of each woman's bags and her name and the ID card number she carries, and asking her about the number of her family members, their housing addresses and the regions or governorates from which they came if they were from outside the capital and the reason for the visit.
The search also includes those who are keen on wearing burqas and not revealing their faces, asking them why they chose the Mosque of Al-Saleh to perform prayer without the rest of the mosques in the capital, which reflects the militias' fears even of women coming to Al-Saleh Mosque.
The Houthi inspection process for worshipers at the Al-Saleh Mosque includes recording the number and name of the bank in which some women own financial accounts and use ATM cards, the type of the phones and their numbers, in addition to a careful inspection of the contents of their phones and the pictures in them, and sometimes forcing some women to open their WhatsApp accounts to check it.
The women sources spoken to Newsyemen who had undergone the inspection process confirm that they were subjected to numerous harassment by the Houthi women's militia just because some of them possess ID cards issued from other governorates, and that some of them were accused of coming to the capital, Sanaa, to contribute to raising people against the Houthis and participating in spying on them.
Noting that others threatened with arrest because they objected to what the Houthi women's militia are doing against the worshipers in the Al-Saleh Mosque.
