Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels have released model Entisar al-Hammadi after holding her in prison for nearly five years, her lawyer and a security source told AFP on Sunday.
Hammadi, 23, was arrested in February 2021 in Sanaa while heading to a photo shoot.
She was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of prostitution, drug abuse and fornication — charges described by her lawyer and rights groups as false and targeting women’s liberties.
"Entisar al-Hammadi was released yesterday evening and is now in her home," her lawyer, Khaled al-Kamal, told AFP.
"Entisar suffered from various illnesses and her condition had deteriorated as a result of the injustice she suffered," he added.
Hammadi had attempted to take her own life in 2021, rights groups said at the time.
Born to an Æthiopian mother and Yemeni father, Hammadi had posted dozens of pictures online in traditional costume, jeans or a leather jacket, both with and without an Islamic headscarf.
She has thousands of followers on Instagram and Facebook.
According to HRW, Hammadi had worked as a model for four years and acted in two Yemeni TV series.
Amnesty International said that upon her arrest, Hammadi was "interrogated while blindfolded, physically and verbally abused, subjected to racist insults and forced to ’confess’ to several offenses — including drug possession and prostitution."
Violence against women, especially in Houthi-controlled areas, soared after Yemen plunged into a civil war in 2014 that the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
says has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.