regularly fired such weaponry into the Meel, had started an investigation, found the police Tawasol and Kheir camps for internally were responsible and arrested 11 personnel. displaced people, close to Ma’arib city, Huthi de facto authorities continued to 1-3km from the front line. This killed six detain four journalists on death row. Amnesty women and three children. On 3 April, in International documented how journalists Rawda neighbourhood, Ma’arib city, a rocket from the same group of detainees, but who launched from a Huthi-controlled area killed were released in 2020 along with men from one boy and one man and injured three boys. the Baha’i community, were subjected to The UN GEE concluded that these attacks enforced disappearance and torture during amounted to war crimes. their detention, before being forced into exile 1 In Hodeidah, government forces occupied as a condition of their release. the Thabit Brothers food production facility, Huthi de facto authorities continued legal using it for military purposes and therefore proceedings targeted against Baha’i on the rendering it a military target. On 6 and 19 basis of their religion, and froze or June, Huthi forces shelled the facility, confiscated assets belonging to 70 members causing civilian casualties and damaging of the community. They also continued to food production and water supply. arbitrarily detain, since March 2016, a Jewish UNLAWFUL KILLINGS man on the basis of his religion, despite judicial rulings requiring his release. In Aden, a governorate controlled by STC STC FORCES forces, there were 38 assassinations or In early 2021, in Aden, STC forces arbitrarily attempted assassinations of civilians in 2021, detained two men for criticizing the STC. In according to SAM for Rights and Liberties. May, in Aden, STC counter-terrorism forces On 8 September, at al-Farsha checkpoint, detained a man whose fate remained unclear Tur al-Bahah, Lahij governorate, STC forces at the end of the year. In September, they stopped and killed a doctor. On 4 October, abducted four university students returning unidentified armed men at another from a trip abroad, while they were transiting checkpoint in Tur al-Bahah, in an area Aden airport. They were released at the end controlled by STC forces, stopped and killed of September. a nurse working for Doctors Without Borders. GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND ARBITRARY DETENTION, TORTURE AND DISCRIMINATION UNFAIR TRIALS All parties to the conflict continued to impose All parties to the conflict continued to detain, and exploit patriarchal gender norms, used forcibly disappear and torture individuals on gender-based violence and discrimination to the basis of their political, religious or further their objectives, and maintained a professional affiliations, their peaceful wide range of discriminatory and oppressive activism or their gender. customary and statutory legal provisions. HUTHI DE FACTO AUTHORITIES Yemen was ranked second to worst in the Huthi de facto authorities continued to 2021 Global Gender Gap Index. arbitrarily detain hundreds of migrant men, HUTHI DE FACTO AUTHORITIES women and children, mostly Ethiopian and Huthi de facto authorities continued their Somali nationals, in poor conditions for campaign of arbitrary detention and enforced indefinite periods in Sana’a city. On 7 March, disappearance of women and girls, detainees conducted a hunger strike in particularly women human rights defenders protest. Authorities responded by corralling and those perceived to be challenging Huthi- 350 detainees in a locked hangar and firing enforced gender norms. In 2021 alone, they projectiles into the building, igniting a fire that detained at least 233 women and girls in killed 46 detainees and injured 202 others. facilities in Sana’a, accusing them of The Huthi Ministry of Interior stated that they supporting the coalition, “sex work” or crimes Amnesty International Report 2021/22 407