Calls to protest in Yemen Sanaa against the Iran-backed Houthis

Yemeni parliamentarians and politicians in Sanaa called for civil disobedience and a general strike, in protest against the deteriorating living conditions.

The Yemeni parliamentarian Ahmed Saif Hashid announced his readiness to protest against the Houthis' starvation policies against citizens, the high prices, the high cost of living and the interruption of salaries.

The Yemeni parliamentarian Abdo Beshr, for his part, called on residents in Houthi-controlled areas to implement a two-day partial strike every week and stop buying goods whose prices are manipulated.

MR. Beshr vowed to carry out a comprehensive civil disobedience, due to the deterioration of the situation, non-disbursement of salaries, silencing of mouths, confiscation of freedoms, threats, outrageous prices, crises, and the lack of oil derivatives and domestic gas.

He called on academics, educators, journalists, personalities, unions, civil society organizations and parties to play a role in curbing these crimes

The state of general popular discontent has increased in the Houthi areas after the rise in prices, the high cost of living, the militias’ continued cutting of employee salaries, recurring crises in oil derivatives and domestic gas, transferring them to the black market and selling them at double prices, and imposing extra-legal levies and royalties.