Al-Houthi militia opens secret graduate programs at Sana'a University to give its leaders false certificates

English - Thursday 23 September 2021 الساعة 03:34 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:

Academic sources at Sana’a University revealed to NewsYemen that the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, has opened new master’s and doctoral programs in some of the university’s faculties, especially the faculties of commerce, Sharia and law, and restricting registration and admission to these programs to a specific number of people only.

According to the sources, the registration, admission and study processes in these programs are confidential, as they were limited to a narrow framework of employees in the graduate studies programs at Sana’a University who were appointed by the militias during the last two years, and they are the only ones who have access to information related to the persons applying for registration and study in these programs  .

The sources say that they obtained information about the allocation of these programs for purposes related to granting leaders in the Houthi militias master’s and doctoral degrees from these programs that were developed in secret and without anyone knowing about them except for a limited number of the university leadership and some academics who will assume responsibility for awarding certificates as they are the committees that supervised and discussed  Student research.

The sources add: Among the Houthi leaders registered in these programs are the militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the head of the so-called Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat, the director of the presidential office Ahmed Hamed, the head of military intelligence Abu Ali al-Hakim, the head of the intelligence service Abdul Hakim al-Khaiwani, and the Minister of Education, brother of the leader.  The militias, Yahya al-Houthi, the Minister of Interior Abdul Karim al-Houthi, and a number of other militia leaders who occupy sensitive and important positions and positions within the framework of the militias’ authority.

According to the sources, some researchers and academics loyal to the militias were assigned to prepare and write research papers for obtaining master’s and doctoral degrees in the names of Houthi leaders, so that they are submitted and registered as official documents in the archives of these programs in order to be a justification for awarding certificates.

In addition to the senior leaders in the militias, the sources confirmed that there are dozens of middle leaders registered in the framework of these programs, especially the master’s program, in order to be granted these certificates within the framework of the militias’ planning to employ and absorb them within the framework of state institutions under their control, or within the framework of any government resulting from a political settlement  futuristic.

And academic sources at Sana’a University revealed to NewsYemen, early this year, that the Houthi militias issued forged academic certificates to leaders of the Houthi militias.