A Yemeni human rights coalition accused the Houthi militia of committing grave abuses against civilians in 20 Yemeni provinces, killing and injuring some 5,000 people in 2017. The findings were revealed in the third annual report on human rights situation in Yemen, which was released by the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations on the sidelines of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Coalition Director Mutahar al-Budheiji said in a presentation in the seminar that "the human rights situation in Yemen has entered a very sensitive and complex stage." According to the report, 2260 people were killed and 2,780 injured due to Houthi attacks, sniper assaults, planting mines, illegal executions, death under torture and other means of killing. Among those killed were 337 children, 140 women and 128 elderly. A total of 544 children, 283 women and 179 elderly were among those injured. The report revealed that the most dangerous areas in Yemen, where violations were documented, included large areas in Taiz, and the provinces of al-Jawf, Hajja, Sanaa, Marib, Shabwa, Saada, al-Baydah, Dhale, lahij and Hodeidah. It held Houthi militias accountable for planting mines in a number of Yemeni areas, and accused it of breaching the ban on the use of this weapon, which is criminalized under the laws of war. It also pointed out that it has documented repeated, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on a number of neighborhoods, residential areas, commercial markets and civilian facilities in a number of Yemeni provinces. The most notable of these governorates was Taiz, where 341 people were killed, followed by Hodeidah with 92 dead, Saada with 84, Marib with 76 and Dhale with 64. The Yemeni Coalition monitored the killing of 157 people in several governorates, including 80 by unidentified gunmen and 41 by extremist members of al-Qaeda in the governorates of Hadramout, Taiz, Aden and Abyan. It said that it has also documented “brutal” torture against 206 detainees, 27 of whom died in prisons in Ibb, Saada, Hodeidah and Taiz. Forty-one detainees were killed because they were used by Houthi militias as human shields. The Coalition accused Houthis of obliterating the diverse cultural heritage in Yemen since it launched its coup against the legitimate state institutions.