Current Events > Houthi Rebels Sentence 13 to Death on Homosexuality Charges in Yemen

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The Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organisation that emerged in Yemen during the 1990s. Houthi militants control vast swathes of the country, and the groups recent attacks on Red Sea shipping has prompted retaliation from both the US and the UK.

The death sentences were handed down in Ibb, an area controlled by the Houthis rebels. According to reports in AFP, quoting an anonymous source, three others were jailed on similar charges and another 35 people were detained in the province, also for alleged homosexuality-related offences.

The court findings are open to appeal and it is not clear when any of the public executions are due to be carried out, but, according to a report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in 2022, the Houthis have sentenced 350 people to death 11 of who have been executed since they seized Yemens capital city of Sanaa in 2014.

The Houthis are ramping up their abuses at home while the world is busy watching their attacks in the Red Sea, Niku Jafarnia, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, told AFP.

If they really cared about the human rights they purport to be standing up for in Palestine, they wouldnt be flogging and stoning Yemenis to death.

According to Amnesty International, the rebels continue to target LGBTQ+ people with arbitrary arrest and torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence. In 2022, the Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist organisation in South Yemen, and the Houthis arrested at least five people on the basis of either their refusal to conform to masculine and feminine presentation or their LGBTQ+ activism.

On one occasion, a queer man was pulled off the street and accused of being a sexual deviant. He was detained in a military vehicle and only released on the condition that he agreed to help the Houthis capture people who did not conform to gender norms. However, after he was released he refused, and was told by security forces that he was wanted for arrest once again.

In addition, the Houthis mahram agreement continues to ban women from travelling without a male guardian or written evidence of their consent. Meanwhile, increased restrictions on travel have affected womens ability to work, resulting in many being unable to access healthcare, with Yemeni female humanitarian workers unable to reach them.

slavers committing human rights crimes? shocking

Yeah, and it's sad how so many idiots actually support them.

Jesus Christ I need superman/Goku level powers to break these people out of jail and bring them to a country that isn't shit.

Which one of these guys is Hasan going to ask their opinion on Anime?

Which one of these guys is Hasan going to ask their opinion on Anime?

Any LGBT person who supports Palestine needs to realise they are helping these horrible murderers.

You dont even realize that Yemen is not in Palestine.

That aside, why is it unbelievable to you that an LGBTQ person could have empathy for another marginalized group? At least 19,500 women and children have been murdered by Israel since October. Hell, how many of those killed were LGBTQ, regardless of whether they can be open about it?

Are Jews a marginalized group? Im not caught up on the current hierarchy

Im not caught up on the current hierarchy

You dont even realize that Yemen is not in Palestine.

That aside, why is it unbelievable to you that an LGBTQ person could have empathy for another marginalized group? At least 19,500 women and children have been murdered by Israel since October. Hell, how many of those killed were LGBTQ, regardless of whether they can be open about it?

Palestinians are not all that much more tolerant of LGBTQ than the Houthis. In fact they're so bad that LGBTQ persecution is one of the very few reasons Israel will grant limited refugee status to Palestinians.

Palestinians are not all that much more tolerant of LGBTQ than the Houthis.

Its so ridiculous, by the way, to hear erm, dont you know their LGBTQ record from the same people who want gay marriage illegal and transgender people eradicated here in the US.

We can blame that on the rise of misinformation which affects everyone whether they be on the left or right. While I typically expect the far right to fall for propaganda, it's disappointing to see some leftists not use critical thinking more to disseminate the things being shown to them.

Why is Hasan such a big deal with the left? Isn't he a rich person, the very thing leftists despise?

Bitches about misinformation then posts this

Yeah okay

Hasan fanboy detected.

Bitches about misinformation then posts this

Some people just have this mindset of rooting for the "underdog" who fights the big bad imperialist west/America. They get into this mindset where if the USA is bad, then anyone fighting them is automatically good. It's mostly tankies, but some other lefty types can get caught up in it too.

Some people just have this mindset of rooting for the "underdog" who fights the big bad imperialist west/America. They get into this mindset where if the USA is bad, then anyone fighting them is automatically good. It's mostly tankies, but some other lefty types can get caught up in it too.

Okay but the support online for the Houthis was explicitly in reference to them making a blockade to try to force a ceasefire in Gaza. It wasnt people the US dont like GOOD and trying to frame it that way seems intentionally ignorant to the reasons for that blockade and why people are upset with the US involvement with Israels occupation.

slavers committing human rights crimes? shocking

Some people just have this mindset of rooting for the "underdog" who fights the big bad imperialist west/America. They get into this mindset where if the USA is bad, then anyone fighting them is automatically good. It's mostly tankies, but some other lefty types can get caught up in it too.

Why is Hasan such a big deal with the left? Isn't he a rich person, the very thing leftists despise?

It's hard to say. He's largely ignorant on a lot of subjects and a typical Champagne Socialist.

Republicans feverishly taking notes.

Why is Hasan such a big deal with the left?

Isn't he a rich person, the very thing leftists despise?