7 May 2021, 15:37 UTC Yemenâs Huthi de facto authorities must halt plans to carry out a forced âvirginity testâ on a Yemeni actress and model who has been arbitrarily detained for more than two months on spurious grounds said Amnesty International, calling for her immediate release. Forced âvirginity testsâ are a form of sexual violence and amount to torture under international law. Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested by plainclothes security forces at a checkpoint in Sanaâa on 20 February. While detained, she was interrogated while blindfolded, physically and verbally abused, subjected to racist insults and forced to âconfessâ to several offences, including drug possession and prostitution. Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen.