The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol expressed full solidarity with the mothers of abductees and those forcibly disappeared in Yemen,

who were assaulted by the Houthi militia in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital Sana’a while they were trying to meet the UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. 

In a statement posted on her Facebook account, Karman said, “it is inconceivable that mothers of those kidnapped or forcibly disappeared were beaten by the militia just a few meters away from the residence of UN envoy to Yemen near the Sheraton Hotel in Sana'a.” 

In addition, she showed “compassion” for the UN envoy himself who, as she said, was unable to meet the mothers, let alone to release their relatives.   

In a press release issued on Sunday, the association of Mothers of Abductees said that armed elements belonging to the Houthi militia and ousted president Saleh allied with it beat them with rifle butts, grabbed them by their veils pulling them to the floor, confiscated their mobile phones and uttered obscenities.