Gulf newspaper: Houthi militia detains 200 judges and prevents them from communicating
English - Wednesday 12 July 2023 الساعة 03:51 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, exclusive:
The Saudi newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, said that the Houthi militia is holding 200 judges in a government facility in Sana'a.
The newspaper reported, according to "local Yemeni sources in Sana'a," that the Houthi militia lured the judges to a meeting at the headquarters of the Higher Judicial Institute, before detaining them and confiscating their phones since last Saturday, and preventing them from communicating with their families.
While the Houthi move was condemned by the government, the sources suggested that the group detained the judges in order to subject them to a sectarian mobilization course, in the context of its approach to ideologize the employees subject to it, and to stuff their brains with the ideas of the group's leader and founder, which center around the alleged right of Houthi to rule the Yemenis.
Since the beginning of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the leader of the group with the imam approach, which has become unfolding day after day, continues to give lessons and daily lectures to mobilize his supporters with his ideas about the alleged state and to give them lessons in the fanatical religious commitment of his group and him as a divine ruler of the Yemenis. Al-Houthi also directs his daily speeches and lectures in order to attract more Yemenis in his areas of control, especially young men, boys and influential personalities.
While the Gulf newspaper quoted its local sources as saying that the militia authorities had detained the judges to subject them to what they called "cultural courses", the Minister of Information in the legitimate government, Muammar al-Iryani, confirmed the detention of those judges.
Al-Eryani said, in an official statement referred to by the newspaper, that the militias lured the 200 judges to attend a meeting at the Judiciary Institute, and put them in a so-called “closed cultural course.” Communication with them was cut off from the moment of the kidnapping, describing what the Houthi militia had done as "a criminal act that falls within its scheme aimed at demolishing state institutions, including the judiciary."
Al-Eryani added that, since the moment of the coup, the Houthi militia has sought to extend its control over the joints of the judiciary and undermine the independence of the judiciary, by subjecting its members to sectarian courses, and trying to subdue them through liquidation, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, displacement, looting of money and property, and the replacement of Hundreds of its members coming from Saada instead.
He accused the Houthi militia of "using the judiciary as a tool to settle its political scores with opponents of its coup project, suppress freedom of opinion and expression in areas under its control, extort merchants, plunder and confiscate citizens' money and property, and legitimize their criminal practices against Yemenis," as he put it.
Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations and its special envoy to Yemen to "clearly condemn these criminal practices, pressure the leaders of the Houthi militia to distance the judiciary from the conflict, and stop their efforts to undermine the independence of the judiciary and prejudice judicial freedoms, using it as a tool of repression and political terrorism."
The coup group also monopolized studies at the Higher Judicial Institute for the benefit of its loyalists and the sons of its leaders, and harnessed the courts to issue hundreds of arbitrary sentences against its political opponents and opponents, including death sentences and confiscation of funds and real estate.
Since its coup against the Yemeni consensus and storming Sanaa, the Houthi militia has been seeking to sectarianize local communities and government institutions. Where it imposed the so-called "code of professional conduct" that obliges government workers to recognize the right of the Houthi dynasty to rule.
