Rasd Organization for Rights and Liberties condemned the terrorist Houthi militia’s kidnapping of four members of the Yemeni Airlines fleet at Sana’a airport, and the obstruction of the return of Yemeni pilgrims, and stressed the need to punish the Houthi militia for this crime.

The head of the organization, Arafat Hamran, described in a statement the terrorist Houthi militia’s detention of Yemeni Airlines aircraft “as a full-fledged war crime, and a crime of collective punishment in addition to the crimes of the previous Houthi militia.”

Hamran called on the United Nations and its envoy to Yemen to condemn the incident and put pressure on the Houthi militia to remove its hands from those aircraft.

Hamran stressed that this crime “must not go unpunished and held accountable, as militia crimes went before.”

Hamran called on the presidency and the legitimate government to open an urgent investigation into the incident of successive detention of aircraft without taking immediate measures from the relevant government agencies to prevent the detention of this number of aircraft at once, especially with an aircraft that has been detained for about a month.

Earlier, on Wednesday, the Yemeni Ministry of Transport announced that the Houthi militia detained three aircraft at Sanaa Airport along with their technical crews.

The ministry explained in a statement, published by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), that the terrorist militias seized three planes, yesterday, Tuesday, in addition to a fourth plane that had been detained for about a month, as those planes were transporting pilgrims to the Holy House of God from King Abdulaziz Airport. In Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Sanaa Airport.

The Ministry called on the United Nations and the international community to intervene urgently to release the Yemeni Airlines planes detained at Sanaa Airport and their assets by the Houthi militias, and to help the company take all measures to protect its assets and financial revenues to ensure continued operation and strengthen and develop its fleet.