Report: More than 1,300 women were killed and injured in Houthi attacks in 4 governorates
English - Tuesday 09 March 2021 الساعة 02:16 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
A human rights report revealed that about 530 women were killed and at least 800 others were injured in Houthi attacks targeting residential neighborhoods in the governorates of Taiz, Al-Hodeidah, Al-Dhalea and Al-Jawf.
The report, which was issued by the National Committee for Investigating Human Rights Violations (governmental), said that Taiz governorate ranked first with the number of victims, with 678 women, followed by Al-Hodeidah Governorate, then Al-Jawf and Al-Dhalea governorates.
He stated that the committee documented that about 730 women were subjected to forced displacement from their areas, and it also monitored the killing and wounding of 109 women as a result of the explosion of Houthi mines in Taiz, Al-Jawf, Al-Hodeidah, Al-Dhalea, Aden, Lahj, Marib and Saada, in addition to the killing of one hundred and fifty girls due to mines.
The report documented that 515 women were affected by the Houthi militia bombing of their homes in the governorates of Hajjah, Taiz, Al-Bayda, Al-Jawf, Ibb, Sana'a, and Al-Dhalea, in addition to documenting that seventy-two women were subjected to arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance because of their humanitarian and political activities or the extortion of their families as part of the policy of using women in war.
According to the report, 376 prisoners in the prisons of Amanat Al Asimah, Al Hodeidah, Ibb, Aden, Mukalla, Shabwa, and Taiz were deprived of their rights to legal aid, delayed consideration of their cases, poor health and food facilities, in addition to the deprivation of some of them from release, despite the expiration of their sentences with illegal justifications.
