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Houthi gunmen attacked and arrested a number of women who took to streets of Sanaa on Saturday to protest against deteriorating living conditions amid sharp depreciation of the Yemeni rial.
The women were released shortly afterwards from a police station, sources said.
Houthis also held a military parade at Sanaa University and arrested and attacked students.
The Yemeni rial has fallen by more than 300% against major currencies. Today, it is trading at 730 to the US dollar, down from 215 before the breakout of the war in late 2014.
Several Yemeni cities run by the internationally recognised government and a Saudi-led military coalition backing it, including the temporary capital Aden and Taiz, have seen protests against the currency crisis and skyrocketing prices of food for a week.
The Houthi Group, which has been controlling Sanaa since it ousted the government in September 2014, deployed gunmen to all streets of the city amid growing calls by activists for a revolution of the hungry in all Houthi-run regions.
Separately, it called on its fans to stage armed and unarmed protests in Al-Tahrir square in downtown Sanaa against economic aggression and policies of starvation by the pro-government coalition and to mobilise fighters for war against the government and the coalition.
On Friday night, it announced the arrest of one of the activists calling for the revolution of the hungry and released a videotape in which the arrestee admitted that the coalition is taking advantage of the economic crisis, which was a direct result of its intervention, to stir chaos.
It has warned against any attempts by traitors and rioters to disturb social peace.
Yemen has been devastated by an armed conflict which broke out after the Houthis ousted the government. It escalated after the Saudi-led coalition intervened military in the country in March 2015, resulting in what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
