Houthis force Sana'a University students to stage protests in exchange for grades

Media sources revealed that the administration of Sana'a University, which is under the control of the Houthi militia, forced students to organize weekly protests, in exchange for granting them 10 additional marks in each subject.

The sources reported that Houthi leaders at the university follow a strict system to force students to participate, where the names of participants are registered through batch representatives and submitted to the deans of the colleges, including colleges such as medicine.

These measures have sparked widespread resentment among students, who described them as a flagrant violation of their educational rights, stressing that they aim to politicize the academic process and turn grades into a pressure tool to serve political and propaganda goals that have nothing to do with education.

Since its coup, the Houthi militia has exploited educational institutions, including universities, to mobilize political support and promote its ideological ideas.

It also made radical changes to the school curricula, removing national concepts and replacing them with sectarian ones, in an attempt to prepare a generation that would adopt its intellectual project.

Observers believe that these Houthi practices are part of the group’s efforts to control educational institutions and direct them to serve its own agendas, disregarding the future of students and their right to an education free from politicization.