A large number of social media activists have initiated the hashtag #Houthi_trials_physically_eliminate _opponents to show solidarity with 70 civilians sentenced to death by the terrorist Houthi militia.
The sentenced men had been rounded up from their homes and workplaces to Houthi jails for oral criticism and civil dissent against the foreign-backed militia that seized Yemen's capital by force in 2014.
Over the past years, the S!di-backed Houthi militia have issued several similar mass death sentences against civilian oppositionists and killed and maimed hundreds others by torture in jail.
Showing solidarity with the latest 70 victims, lawyer Fahd Al-Wasabi told Al-Sahwa Net that the terrorist Houthi militia is a new Houthi crime added to the militia's record replete wqith serious and systematic violations of the rights of citizens in the areas under the militia's control and Yemeni citizens in general.
He said these orders were issued "to plunder the rights and property of civilians, in violation of the law, the constitution and international agreements ratified by Yemen".
The Director General of the Human Rights Office of the Capital Sana'a, based in Marib, Fahmi Al-Zubairi, pointed out that "the terrorist Houthi militia has been kidnapping thousands and hundreds of civilians and innocents illegally for nine years, forcibly disappearing them in its prisons, and practicing the most heinous forms of torture against them."
Al-Zubairi told "Al-Sahwa Net" that the militia ultimately refers these kidnapped and forcibly disappeared people to "stand farcical trials in courts that lack legitimacy and the minimum standards for litigation and fair trial."