Yemen Monitor/Newsroom
The Houthi armed group in Ibb Governorate (central Yemen) has ordered a ban on any student celebrations marking the anniversary of the September 26th Revolution in schools across the governorate.
Educational sources reported that the Houthi supervisor in Ibb, who has usurped the position of deputy governor, Abdul Fattah Ghaleb, held a meeting yesterday, Tuesday, with the director of the education office and female school principals in the city of Ibb. During the meeting, he instructed them to prevent any celebrations of the 62nd anniversary of the glorious September 26th Revolution.
The sources clarified that “the directives included a ban on decorating schools with national flags or holding school broadcasts for the occasion,” noting that Ghaleb threatened the principals with punitive measures if they violated these directives or if any information about the meeting leaked to the media.
In October 2022, the Houthi group referred teacher Faiza Al-Badani, director of the al-Saeed Educational Complex in Ibb Governorate, for investigation after her school celebrated the anniversaries of both September and October revolutions.
Since the Houthi coup against the state on September 21, 2014, the group has sought to erase everything related to the September 26th Revolution, which ended the rule of the imamate in the north of the country. They have removed the national holiday from the academic calendar, distorted the goals of the revolution in the curricula, and removed symbols of the revolution from the curricula. Additionally, some group leaders have described the September Revolution as a coup.
The Houthi group has also worked to impose its own sectarian holidays and occasions, and to commemorate the deaths of its leaders, most notably Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi and Saleh al-Samad.
