Maysa Shuja al-Din, senior researcher at the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies: The Houthis do not recognize national borders and define themselves as a revolutionary movement, not a state, with ambitions to spread their model beyond Yemen. Information from areas controlled by the Houthis is scarce. There is no free media. The information is controlled. People are afraid to speak. The Houthis collect heavy taxes but provide no salaries, no services, no sense of responsibility towards their society. interview

Maysa Shuja al-Din, senior researcher at the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies: The Houthis do not recognize national borders and define themselves as a revolutionary movement, not a state, with ambitions to spread their model beyond Yemen. Information from areas controlled by the Houthis is scarce. There is no free media. The information is controlled. People are afraid to speak. The Houthis collect heavy taxes but provide no salaries, no services, no sense of responsibility towards their society. interview