A human rights report documents more than 15,000 violations committed by the Houthis in Dhamar

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms has documented 15,413 violations and a crime committed by the Houthi terrorist militia supported by the Iranian regime in Dhamar Governorate, during the period from January 1, 2018 to May 30, 2025 AD.
The report, issued by the network, explained that the violations included murders, injuries and kidnappings, in addition to enforced disappearance and torture, storming and bombing homes, occupying public and private institutions, headquarters of parties, worship houses, mine implantation, recruitment of children, establishing private courts and prisons, as well as setting up checkpoints, storing weapons, displacing, forced displacement and looting of humanitarian assistance Medical, imposing financial royalties, and other repressive practices.
The report stated that during the past seven years, the militia committed murders against 474 civilians, including 32 children and 12 women. 218 civilians were injured, including 34 children and 9 women.
The network also monitored 1,183 kidnappings, which affected children and political activists, media, educators and military personnel, in addition to workers and citizens who were kidnapped on fabricated charges, most notably "intelligence with the coalition" or "support for legitimacy". Most of them are still unknown until now.
The report also recorded 72 cases of forced concealment, 27 hostages, and 614 arbitrary detention cases for travelers, along with 315 dismissal cases of public jobs with political motives, 9 cases of rape of children and women, and 274 torture cases, including 12 deaths under torture in the Houthi prisons. 105 civilians were subjected to physical attacks, including 98 cleaning workers who were suppressed during protests to demand their salaries.
The report documented 39 houses, 6 commercial stores, two mosques, and a house for memorizing the Qur’an, in addition to 1304 cases of storming houses, 5 burning cases, 150 cases of looting of homes, 52 private property confiscation, 17 cases of plundering public property, and 109 storming of government facilities, 9 of which were transferred to military barracks.
The militia used 18 civilian facilities for military purposes, and committed 32 attacks on the role of worship, 166 storming operations of educational facilities, 32 assaults on health facilities, closed 7 religious schools, and also seized 42 floors pending before the judiciary, 138 cases of looting of public property and illegally sold them.
The militia forced more than 2,143 families on forced displacement, while 4,671 cases of undermining state institutions, 203 cases of illegal appointments, 64 cases of establishing camps and storage weapons, 56 inspection barriers, and 1304 cases of illegal royalties and customs duties are imposed. It also documented 455 salary confiscation cases and 42 cases of robbery on relief aid and preventing the beneficiaries of the beneficiaries.
The report monitored the recruitment of 4,481 children between the ages of 12 and 16, and 2,019 of them were killed while participating in the fighting within the ranks of the Houthis, and 1,475 other children were injured.
The network also documented the presence of 65 secret prisoners and 30 cemeteries in Dhamar Governorate, 154 violations against freedom of opinion and expression, including 65 cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance of journalists, 28 cases of prevention of media coverage, 56 cases of informational relatives, closing 5 weekly newspapers, preventing the sale and circulation of newspapers and magazines in various libraries and stalls of the province.
The network emphasized that what was stated in its report does not represent all violations committed during the specified time period, but rather what was documented through its field monitors, despite the security challenges and threats facing monitoring teams and victims alike, according to the official Al -Thawra newspaper.