Retaliating against defeats suffered on west coast fronts and in Al Baydaa and Sa’ada, Houthi militias stepped up repressive actions and abuses against the population in coup-controlled Sanaa, Hodeidah, Dhamar. Abuses included kidnappings, transgression against private property, looting of assets and systematic coercion against Yemenis. Militias arrested a number of professors at the University of Sanaa, and currently are holding them hostage in one of their censored prisons in the Houthi-run capital. They were arrested and taken for interrogation at a coup security checkpoint while heading for the temporary capital of Aden. The professors were headed to receive their salaries by the legitimate government which relocated to Aden, Yemen’s southern port city and designated interim capital. Houthi militias have rejected paying public service employees working in their areas of control for nearly 20 months now, despite the huge financial resources they derive from tax revenues, customs, fuel trade, fees and unlawful royalties they collect. Most funds found and gathered by coupists are pumped into their war effort. Sanaa University Professor Amna Yousef, in a statement posted on her personal Facebook page, said that the militia stopped a bus carrying a number of university professors at the checkpoint between Sanaa and Dhamar, when they were heading to Aden to receive their salaries. Yousef said that her husband, who needs regular insulin injections, is among those kidnapped. The members of the faculty of Sanaa University condemned the arrests and called for their immediate release. Names of those being detained included Khalid Mohammed Abdul Sattar Al-Shumairi, Vice Dean of the College of Education for Students Affairs, Abdul Baqi Mohammed Abdo Al Nahari, Head of Social Studies Department, Khalid Al-Ezzi Muslimi, Head of English Language Department, Adnan Yousef Ahmed Al Shuaibi, Head of Arabic Language Department, Abdul Salam Abdu Qasim Al-Makhlafi, Faculty Member of Education, Dr. Amna Yousef, Farouk Abdul Malik Saeed Al Hadrami. Hundreds of government employees who tried to leave coup-controlled areas to get their salaries from the internationally-recognized government have been arrested and faced oppression.