Revolutionary sermon inside Houthi prison

Victory for the oppressed.

The last time, the Houthis threw Mohammed Sultan into prison in a civil case, and after he confronted the influential Houthis in the judiciary in the Al-Hawban area, his detention period was extended more than once and there were violations of legal procedures issued by some of their own agencies, as he explained on his personal Facebook page.

His sense of injustice made him ascend the prison pulpit and deliver a revolutionary sermon against the Houthis.

As I was investigating the details from the people of the country, and some visitors to the residential city of Al-Saleh, which the Houthis had turned into the largest newly created prison for them in the country, my curiosity was aroused by the Houthis’ division of Al-Saleh City and the distribution of its buildings according to the type of detainees, including those kidnapped from the streets and those who have no cases. Some of the buildings/prisons are named after the Houthi leader supervising them, such as the Abu Horiya building and the reserve prison building.

The Houthis have established framing centers inside the prison. These centers show the group’s fear of even the imprisoned Yemenis, and for this reason they work to gain their loyalty through mobilization. In the pretrial detention center, there is the “Al-Hussein Cultural Center” and the Abu Horiya building, the “ISIS Framing Center,” as they call it, in reference to gaining the loyalty of their opponents and attracting them to the Houthi ranks.

On the first Friday of the last month of Dhul-Hijjah, Mohammed Sultan Shaddad ascended the pulpit of the Al-Hussein Cultural Center and delivered a scathing sermon against the Houthis, in which he attacked the leaders of the security and judicial positions in Al-Saleh: “Whoever wants to know the morals of the leader of the march and the morals of the leaders in Sana’a and Sa’dah should look at the bad and ugly morals of the security personnel, such as the morals of Jihad, Jibril, Radad, and Anwar, for they represent the morals of their leadership, who dress up the truth with falsehood and dress up falsehood with truth.”