Al-Houthi threatens to arrest judges who reject the Houthi judiciary
English - Wednesday 10 March 2021 الساعة 03:53 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The leaders of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, have threatened to arrest and prosecute a number of judges due to their rejection of the militia policies implemented by the so-called justice committee within the institutions of the judiciary.
Judicial sources in Sanaa revealed to NewsYemen that the Houthi leader and the head of the so-called Judicial Committee, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, who is also a member of the so-called Supreme Political Council, threatened to issue orders to arrest a number of judges in the event that the Supreme Judicial Council refused to take legal measures to refer them to the prosecution on their charges. Irregularities.
According to the sources, the judges whom the Houthi militia seeks to refer to the prosecution on charges of committing violations and threatens to arrest them, are the ones who adopt the campaign of rejection of the policies and practices of the so-called judicial committee, which has become the one who runs the institutions of the judiciary, in violation of all the constitutional and legal texts that stipulate the independence of the judicial authority completely And that the accusations that they committed violations that require arrest and referral to the Public Prosecution Office are nothing but allegations that Houthi militia leaders have falsified against those judges who reject their practices.
The recent period witnessed sharp differences between judges and the Houthi militia. Because of the judges ’rejection of the Houthi’s policies of the judiciary that are conducted in a systematic manner, as well as the daily interference in the work of judges, and the confiscation of the independence of the judicial authority and the powers of its members by the so-called Justice Committee, which is an administrative structure that the Houthi militia has created outside the framework of the constitution and laws, like other structures and committees that it has established and uses to administer state institutions away from the institutions affiliated with the government and outside the framework of the powers stipulated in the constitution and the laws in force and regulating the work of state institutions, facilities and authorities.
