Her voice shaking, 26-year-old Balqees recounts her ordeal at a Huthi rebel checkpoint in northern Yemen, where experts say repression of women is rampant after years of civil war. “There is no limit to their shame,” she said, asking to use a pseudonym for fear of reprisal. Balqees (26-year-old woman in Yemen) ‘IT IS RARE FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK OUT’ IN YEMENThe Huthis, from the Zaidi Shiite sect of Islam, whose traditional stronghold is Yemen’s mountainous north, control the capital Sanaa as well as swathes of the country. Yemen has long been a deeply conservative society, but the Iran-backed Huth…