A recent human rights report revealed the presence of about 20,000 abducted Yemenis in the prisons of the Houthi coup militia, which number about 790 prisons, both formal and unofficial.

The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (RASD) said that "20 thousand detainees in 790 official and unofficial prisons inside the areas controlled by the Houthi militia," are within the other grave crimes and violations committed by the Houthi coup militia.

The Coalition added that the Houthi coup militia had recruited about 7,000 children, while about 6 thousand victims were injured by mines laid by the militia in various governorates.

This came in a symposium organized by The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (RASD), yesterday evening, Saturday, through the technology of visual communication entitled (Human Rights in Yemen in light of the Corona pandemic).

The symposium broached on the humanitarian crisis and the Al-Khumus "one-fifth" law recently approved by the Houthi group as racist crime, in addition to the various crimes of the Houthi militias represented in "killing, liquidating opponents, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial executions, violations against children and their recruitment, public freedoms and rights, house bombing, attacks against minorities, looting of relief aid and using it for the benefit of their war effort, sectarianization of society, imposing a policy of starvation, torture of wounded and prisoners and violations that affected the economic and health situation by converting these facilities to military barracks or repeated bombing them.

At the symposium, the head of the executive unit for the management of displaced persons' camps, Najib al-Saadi, explained that the violations of the Houthis caused the displacement of 3 million and 600 thousand displaced people, of which one million and 950 thousand displaced people in the areas controlled by the legitimate government, distributed on 521 sites, except for the displaced who live in the rental houses.