The Yemeni parliament denounced escalated Houthi violations against its members and condemned continued Houthi efforts to issue death sentences and arbitrary arrest warrants against citizens, journalists and parliamentarians.
This came in an official statement released by the parliament speaker's office against the backdrop of Houthis seeking to strip 12 MPs of immunity in preparation to put them on trial.
The parliament’s statement reaffirmed that Houthis resorting to their own parliament in Sanaa is unlawful and is only a part of a series of violations the group has committed against MPs elected by the people.
It also reaffirmed that only the legitimate parliament in Yemen was the one convened on April 13, 2019 in Sayun city and that the so-called Sanaa parliament is spurious and is only a tool used by the militias who self-proclaim its legitimacy.
Last September, the Houthis sentenced 35 parliamentarians loyal to the government to death and the seizure of their assets.
The statement also stressed that all the rulings issued by the Sanaa parliament are constitutionally void and are considered crimes punishable by law.
It also condemned the Houthi attempts to “forge the will of the nation” at create a parallel authority.
The Yemeni parliament called on the international community to pressure Houthi militias to stop its tampering and its actions against lawmakers and Yemenis in general and return the properties that the group seized and the money they confiscated.
It also called for the release of the journalists Akram Al-Walidi, Abdul-Khaleq Imran, Harith Hamid, Tawfiq Al-Mansouri and others who were sentenced to death through Houthi mock courts.
