Shut the Internet access off ... Houthi tactic acquired from Iran
English - Monday 13 January 2020 الساعة 05:40 pm
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For the fifth consecutive day, Yemen has witnessed an almost total outage of the Internet, amid information indicating the role of the Houthi militia in stifling service to the lowest level.
The slowdown in the Internet, since last Thursday, has confused all sectors in Yemen, especially the economy, with causing a cessation of life in many cities.
Although five days have passed, the service is still suspended, which has caused the banking and commercial sector to stop and most aspects of life to stop. Thousands of bloggers have disappeared from social media platforms.
Specialists have suggested the involvement of the Houthi militia in cutting the internet service, in the context of security measures to strangle social media platforms, especially as it has recently turned into educational platforms to expose the Houthi project, and expose the misinformation practiced by Iran's arm, on citizens, through sectarian events, courses and gatherings.
The Houthi militia fears the role of social networking sites, as well as the electronic press, in enriching popular positions against it, and therefore using the Internet weapon to isolate citizens from the world, and this is an Iranian tactic used by Tehran to silence protesters and suppress the unrest.
Activists accused the Houthi militia of seeking to isolate the Yemenis from the world through its successive measures related to Internet service, whether in terms of raising prices to more than 130 per cent or for intentionally weakening the service.
Earlier, the Houthi militia, which controls the telecommunications sector in Sanaa, claimed that more than 80 per cent of the internet capacity had gone out of service due to the interruption of a submarine cable outside Yemen.
However, specialists and activists have questioned the Houthi account of the reasons for the interruption of the internet service, accusing the militia of corruption and delay in paying the fees of the global provider of the service, as well as its tendency to put new restrictions on use.
