Houthi Prisons: Brainwashing prisoners in exchange for amnesty, what’s new?

The Houthi terrorist militia continues its violations against civilians in Yemen, always seeking to gain control of the country and support for its alleged extremist ideas, which are rejected by all Yemenis.

Every now and then, there is a clear increase in the number of Yemeni detainees inside Houthi prisons, facing torture to death or brainwashing.

Houthi and Civilian Prisons

Last year, seven abducted civilians were killed by brutal torture inside Houthi prisons. For days, Houthi militia leaders in Yemen have been conducting field visits to a number of prisons in areas under their control.

To gain control, Houthi leaders are brainwashing young detainees, as well as children, in order to trade for the release of dozens of hostages and prisoners in exchange for agreeing to fight for the group.

Houthi militia released 70 prisoners from its detention centers in Amran province, 113 from Hodeidah province, and 32 from prisons in Rima province.

The majority of the released prisoners agreed to join the militias, the sources said.

Inside prisons, detainees are subjected to intellectual and military education by Houthi teachers, in order to brainwash them.

The Houthi rebels have previously launched a series of targeting and recruitment campaigns against hundreds of prisoners and detainees in areas under their control, under the pretext of granting them amnesty and resolving their cases; provided they join their ranks and participate in the fighting.

The Repressive Style and Revolutionary Violence

Yemeni political activist Waddah Atiyah said the Houthis are known to use revolutionary repression and violence in areas they control in the same way as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. For this reason, they severely repress and imprison activists by tweeting their dire conditions on social media.

There are thousands of innocent people who are hidden in prisons. Even children and teenagers are kidnapped and after brainwashing them, they are distributed on the front lines, and when the resistance forces capture them, they talk with hallucinations and superstitions, and after days of their detention, they return crying as if they were awake with the smoke of sugar. It is regrettable that international organizations ignore this major criminal file.