[24/02/2018 12:35]

AMMAN-SABA
A conference held by Yemeni and Jordanian activists in Amman to address the serious human rights violations that Houthis committed in Yemen has called on the United Nations to designate Houthis as a terrorist group.

The participants in the three-day conference which was organized by the Yemeni NGO, Development Media Association, and wrapped up on Friday brought together dozens of politicians and media figures from Yemen and Amman to voice their demand for designating the radical rebels a terrorist movement.

The final statement of the conference stressed the importance of pressuring the international community to designate the Houthis as a terrorist group based on the international laws, conventions and definitions of the concept of terrorism.

The conference called on international human rights organizations, particularly the United Nations, to shoulder their responsibilities against the serious crimes that Houthis have been committing and to issue an international resolution hat designates Houthis terrorists.

The conference called on the United Nations Security Council sanctions committee to include Houthi leaders involved in the abduction, imprisonment and killing of journalists, media professionals and politicians in the international sanctions list.

The Houthi leaders that should be involved, the participants said, include the militia's operatives appointed as heads of the National Security Agency, his deputy and the supervisor of the militia in the capital Sana'a which they control.

The Houthisis a theocratic extremist group that abandoned Yemen's historical national talks in 2014 and conducted a coup to rule the roost in Yemen. They have since plunged Yemen in what is described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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