Yemen: Houthis seeks to control Yemeni judiciary; Details

Violations and crimes affect everyone. The judiciary in Yemen suffers from the interference and violations of Houthi militias. The order for replacement has started, and has reached the kidnapping of judges and the setting of conditions of loyalty and obedience to the Houthis to remove senior judges and appoint alternatives from outside the judiciary. The Yemeni capital, which is under the control of Houthi terrorist militias, has recently witnessed incidents of kidnapping of figures working in the judiciary.

Abduction and liquidation

Armed gangs kidnapped a judge in the capital Sana’a, another gang surrounded another judge, and executed and liquidated Supreme Court member, Judge Mohammed Hamran, in the heart of Sana’a, about a day and a half after he was kidnapped.

Judicial sources said: The sources added that Hamran, a member of the Supreme Court and the former dean of the Law Faculty at Dhale University, had received threats from elements linked to Houthi leaders, against the backdrop of a conflict between Houthi leaders over land and real estate. Sources confirmed that another gang is besieging Judge Al-Jabiri’s house, amidst judicial requests for a strike until those involved are arrested.

Shocking crimes

The killing of Hamran shocked the Yemeni street, which condemned the crime, considering it part of a series of liquidations and the savagery of Houthi militias against various groups of the Yemeni people, especially the judiciary in the areas subject to the coup. After his abduction, dozens of Ibb province flocked to Sanaa to demonstrate in the Al-Sabeen area to condemn the crime, while the Yemeni Judges Club accused Houthi militia leaders of failing to arrest the perpetrators. Houthi militias shot dead Judge Ahmed Al-Ansi, the president of the Bani Al-Harith Court in Sanaa, and his son one year after their disastrous coup. Their latest crime against the judiciary was the armed attack on the head of the Al-Hasha Court, Judge Shamsuddin Al-Melki, in the last weeks of August.

Inquisition

The leader of the Houthi militias, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, who is the former head of the Revolutionary Committee and now a member of the Supreme Political Council for the Houthi putschists, threatened to punish and hold accountable the judges on trumped-up corruption charges, through which he tries to liquidate the judges and to replace other pro-Houthi individuals. A few days ago, most members of the judiciary system in the occupied Yemeni regions objected to the decision of the leader of the Houthi militia, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, to form inspection courts for the judiciary employees.

Mock trials

In the same vein, the Houthis are conducting show-and-show trials without minimum legal requirements against activists, journalists, political opponents, social and religious figures, and citizen traders in a criminal approach aimed at suppressing opponents and liquidating those the militias consider adversaries in their areas of control; These trials provide compelling evidence against judges and courts who have legitimized militia crimes, including the fact that in just four years (2017-2020) the Houthis have sentenced to death 343 hundreds of Yemenis, including 35 parliamentarians, and more recently Houthi militias have passed hundreds of legal sentences and confiscated and looted dozens of businesses and money from political opponents.