Human Rights Watch called on the Houthi militia to release the United Nations employees detained by it.
The organization said in a statement: “The Houthis must release all United Nations employees and workers in other independent international and local organizations, whom they arrested for Their work is in the field of human rights and humanitarian work.”
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it had seen reports stating that yesterday, Thursday, June 6, 2024, the Houthi militias carried out raids on the homes and offices of at least ten employees of various United Nations agencies and organizations. Non-governmental organizations, including at least nine employees of the international organization, detained them in Sanaa, Hodeidah, Saada and Amran, which are under its control.
The international human rights organization indicated that family members and colleagues of some of the detainees assured it that the Houthi authorities did not reveal the locations of the people who She arrested them, did not allow them to communicate with their employers or families, and “her refusal to disclose the whereabouts or fate of detainees could amount to enforced disappearance under international law.”
She added that the Houthi group, in one case, detained the husband of a working woman. With a local civil society organization with her two children; One of them is 3 years old, and the other is only 9 months old, according to a friend who spoke to Human Rights Watch.