Request to renew lifting immunity of al-Houthi in Parliament

SANA'A, Oct.06 (Saba)- In its session on Tuesday , the Parliament referred a request for renewing revoking immunity of the parliamentarian Yahya Badr al-Din al-Houthi to the constitutional and legal affairs committee to study and present its outcomes on it to the parliament next Saturday.

Justice Minster Ghazi Shaif al-Aghbari, who submitted the request, made it clear to the parliament on the procedures taken by the government during the past period towards this topic.

In his request letter, al-Aghbari demonstrated the main reasons for his request in which he pointed out that al-Houthi is convicted of playing part in forming an armed group, inciting a rebellion against the government, and supporting the terrorist and sabotage acts in some districts of Saada province as well as spying for other countries.

Al- Houthi rebels have been launching intermittent wars against the troops since 2004.

Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents have been killed in Saada province, after the rebel group was founded by rebel leader Hussein al- Houthi.

Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.

The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.