Human rights organizations have called on the international community to take serious action to release 136 abductees and forcibly disappeared persons in the prisons of the terrorist Houthi militia supported by the Iranian regime, including 51 employees of the United Nations and the American Embassy in Yemen.

This came in a human rights event held today in the city of Ma’rib, organized by the National Authority for Prisoners and Abductees and the De Yament Organization for Rights and Development, on the occasion of the International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearance, which falls on August 30 of each year.

The organizations indicated in a statement, a copy of which was received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), that they had monitored during the past years 1,585 cases of forced disappearance in areas controlled by the Houthi militias, of whom 136 are still kidnapped and hidden until this moment, including 51 kidnapped United Nations employees. United States and former employees of the American Embassy.

The statement confirmed that the Houthi militias, since their coup against the legitimate state institutions at the end of 2014, have adopted the methodology of enforced disappearance and have adopted it as a means of intimidation to silence their opponents and subject society to it. Calling on the United Nations, its special envoy to Yemen, and all relevant international organizations, to take serious action to release all those kidnapped. And those who are forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Houthi militias, and work to achieve justice for the victims and condemn the perpetrators of these violations.

The organizations stressed the need to put pressure on the Houthi militias to stop their interference in the work of UN and international organizations and try to impose their agenda on them and transform their relief and humanitarian activities to serve their goals. They warned against the continuation of the hate speech and incitement practiced by the Houthi militias against the UN and international organizations operating in areas under their control because of its harm. It has serious repercussions on the activities of these organizations and on relief work