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After being five years in prison, Yemen’s Houthi rebels released model Entisar al-Hammadi as told by her lawyer to a news agency AFP.
She was sentenced to five years, as arrested in February 2021 while going for a photo shoot in Sanaa on the charges of prostitution, drug abuse and fornication. Her lawyer said that the accusations against her were incorrect and suppressed the women’s liberties and rights.
Hammadi, who is the daughter of a Yemeni father and Ethiopian mother, worked as a model for several years and also performed in two Yemeni series. Defying the conservative Muslim norms, she sometimes appeared in photographs without a scarf which sparked outrage.
Her lawyer, Khaled al-Kamal, told AFP, “Entisar al-Hammadi was released yesterday evening and is now in her home.” He also spoke about the injustice she faced during her period in the prison highlighting deteriorated health.
In March 2021, Hammadi was sent to the Central Prison in Sanaa where she faced discrimination and was called “whore” and “slave” because of her dark complexion, as stated by her lawyer.
Amnesty International said that upon her arrest, Hammadi was “interrogated while blindfolded, physically and verbally abused, subjected to racist insults and forced to ‘confess’ to several offences – including drug possession and prostitution”.
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