Name: Muqbil Mohammed Hassan Al-Habashi
Arresting Authority: Houthi group
Date of Arrest: July 15, 2016

"Are they in their right minds? How do they accuse a blind person of working as a sniper against them? They torture him, knowing he is visually impaired and unable to see them, yet he can feel their cruelty on his tortured body."

How many supervisors were involved in torturing Muqbil Al-Habashi in the residential city that they turned into a prison for the blind and the sighted? Muqbil Al-Habashi, who was blind, used to teach children in a mosque in the Al-Houban area. The Houthis came to him, but how many were they and what did they look like? The number and appearance are not important; they were Houthis, as indicated by their demands: 'They asked me to teach Lieutenant of Hussein Al-Houthi, but I refused.

"They ordered me to chant their slogans, and I refused, saying 'No.' They told me to supplicate for them in prayer, and I replied, 'I do not supplicate for anyone.'"

They went away and came back again, flaunting their power over a blind person who couldn't see their numbers or recognize the weapons they were carrying when they arrived on a Ramadan night after Taraweeh prayers to take him away.

We will take you to your uncle's house," they said to him, but they immediately took him to the Saleh prison, saying, "You are our guest because you are not with the leader.

They used to pour cold water on their blind guest at around 2:00 AM, and they would beat him with a stick. Sometimes, they would electrocute him and even shoot bullets. Were they aiming the bullets at him? The blind person cannot see the direction of the bullet, but he can feel the recoil of the guns. They would hit him on the joints, legs, chest, and face until blood flowed.

Once, they stripped him of his clothes for inspection, claiming that he was hiding a weapon under his garments.

And because everyone in the Saleh prison had charges fabricated by the Houthi authorities, they accused Muqbil, the blind, visually impaired person, of being a sniper.