A human rights center condemned the politicization of the judiciary by the authorities in Aden, and its use as a tool to prosecute journalists and activists, expressing in this context its deep concern about the practices carried out by the court and the specialized criminal prosecution in Aden, which affected nine journalists, lawyers and activists after the decision to include them among the accused in the case of the killing of Brigadier General Adnan Al-Hammadi, commander of the 35th Brigade.

The Geneva-based SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties said that the Sana’a Court of Appeal, under Houthi control, issued a death sentence on September 4 against the director of the Dhila’ Shamlan Police Department in Sana’a, Colonel Yahya Hazam Al-Jaifi, and six members of the department, in retaliation for the killing of a Houthi leader who was killed in a clash while trying to storm the department in mid-2020.

A court affiliated with the terrorist Houthi militia issued a ruling to increase the prison sentence for journalist (Nabil Al-Sadawi), who has been missing in its prisons since September 2015.