Houthi-run court jails Yemeni model for violating public morality


DUBAI (Reuters) - A court run by Yemen's Houthi authorities has sentenced an actor and model to five years in prison for violating public morality, activist said, after she was detained in a ruling that Amnesty International said was arbitrary and spurious.

Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi, in her twenties, was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis in Yemen's more than six-year conflict.

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