Houthi Brotherhood terrorism targeting Yemeni women

English - Tuesday 26 April 2022 الساعة 12:56 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:

A member of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission, Olfat Al-Dubai, announced the prosecution of the newspaper "Akhbar Al-Youm" affiliated with General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, against the background of publishing an article by a Muslim Brotherhood leader that carried incitement against it.

In its issue number (5469), issued on Monday, April 18, 2022, the newspaper devoted a full page to an article in the name of Muhammad Mustafa Al-Omrani, the former secretary of the prominent Brotherhood leader, Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, in which he launched a violent attack against Al-Dubai. 

Al-Dubai indicated in a post on her Facebook page that the accusations brought by the newspaper against her through the article.  It claimed targeting "the pure Islamic religion and the tolerant Islamic law through the civil and political activities that we carry out for the benefit of the United Nations and international women's organizations."

Stressing that this is "a very dangerous incitement in view of the audience of extremists who are working to stoke and inflame their hostile feelings against us with false information and fabricated sentences that have criminal intent and the elements of a complete criminal and political crime in accordance with the law of crimes and penalties in force in the country."

Al-Dubai announced that she would file a criminal case against the newspaper, pointing out that she had appointed a lawyer to file the case to the prosecution and the judiciary as soon as the judicial leave ended after the days of Eid Al-Fitr.

And in another publication, she revealed that the so-called, Muhammad Mustafa Al-Omrani, also threatened that he would file a case against her, and commented by saying: He believes that he can return women to the square of the first ignorance, the ignorance of falsifying religion and religious awareness that Sheikh Al-Zindani has long taught this people.

Al-Dubai, who had previously announced her resignation from the Islah party (the local arm of the Brotherhood in Yemen), added: Today they meet (in reference to the Brotherhood) with the Houthis to fight their battles side by side against women,” she said.

In her speech, Al-Duba'i refers to the harassment and violations that women are subjected to by the Houthi group in its areas of control.  The most recent of what was revealed was that the group obligated transport and car rental companies to prevent women from traveling without obtaining written permission from her guardian.

Al-Houthi group has previously launched a series of repressive measures aimed at restricting women and limiting their activities in public life under the pretext of “preventing mixing”, and UN organizations were not spared of these measures, according to what was confirmed by the recent report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen on  Incidents of preventing aid from reaching the needy during 2021.

The report, which accused the Houthi militia of 90% of these incidents, said that they mostly manifested themselves in the requirement for a mahram to accompany Yemeni aid workers when traveling on field missions, which led to the cancellation of field missions and the delivery of aid.

The matter did not stop at harassment, but to the extent that the Houthi militia committed the crimes of kidnapping hundreds of women and torturing them in detention, which was confirmed by the reports of the experts team of the Sanctions Committee on Yemen. In light of this, the Security Council issued its resolution No. 2564 of 2021, which included Houthi leader Sultan Zabin to  The list of penalties as a result of his responsibility for the crimes of torture and rape against the kidnapped women.