Weeks after his kidnapping, an employee of an international organization died within the walls of the Houthi death cells, and his tragedy opened eyes to the fate of the kidnapped aid workers in Yemen.

Yemeni human rights and media sources told Al-Ain News that the security official at the United Nations Save the Children organization, Hisham Al-Hakimi, was killed under torture in one of the so-called security and intelligence prisons of the Houthi militia in Sanaa.

According to the sources, yesterday, Tuesday, the Houthi militia informed Al-Hakimi’s family to come to receive his body after he was killed under torture in the Security and Intelligence prison, but the family refused to receive it and demanded an autopsy to determine the causes of death.

The family confirmed that since the kidnapping of their son Al-Hakimi at the beginning of last September, they have been prevented from visiting him or hiring a lawyer to defend him since his arrest.

The terrorist Houthi militia kidnapped the employee of Save the Children, Hisham Al-Hakimi, from a street in Sanaa 51 days ago, and placed him in one of its prisons in Sanaa, and prevented his family from reaching him and knowing the reason for his kidnapping.

Kidnapping a UN employee

In Saada, local sources said that the Houthi militia stormed the home of an employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Sanaa, more than two months after he was kidnapped and hidden in its prisons.

The sources added that two days ago, members of the Houthi militia stormed the house of Mubarak Hussein Muhammad Al-Anwa, looted his computer and the phones of his wife and children, tampered with the contents of the house, and frightened the children and women.

Al-Anwa is an employee of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and is a native of Saada Governorate, the main stronghold of the Houthis in northern Yemen.

According to the sources, the Houthi militias forcibly kidnapped him on August 8, 2023 from one of their points in the city of Ibb, while he was trying to move to the city of Aden to travel outside the country.

The tragedy of international staff

The killing of Al-Hakimi and the forced kidnapping opened attention to the tragedy of international employees in the prisons of the Houthi militias who were forcibly disappeared for 3 years, unlike those who were arrested and killed under torture.

The killing of Al-Hakimi was not the first Houthi crime in light of the deafening silence of the international community regarding the Houthi killing of aid workers, as it was preceded in June 2022 by the killing of an aid worker, Yasser Muhammad Ali Junaid, in one of the Houthi secret detention centers in Hodeidah Governorate (west). ) 5 years after his kidnapping.

The Houthi militia kidnapped two United Nations employees in Sanaa in November 2021 and took them “hostage” to blackmail the international community with the aim of political bargaining, and has refused to reveal their fate until today.

The militias also continued to arrest 3 other employees of several international organizations as “hostages” and aimed to force these humanitarian agencies to implement their political and military goals.

Since their coup in late 2014, the Houthi militias have been kidnapping, killing, and torturing aid workers and employees of international and international organizations as part of campaigns of terrorism and repression aimed at subjugating these humanitarian agencies to implement their agenda.

There are thousands of detainees, forcibly disappeared and kidnapped detainees in Houthi prisons, and the families of many of them are prevented from communicating with them, and the militias deny their presence before informing their families of receiving their bodies without revealing the cause of their death, as happened to Al-Hakimi.

Throughout 9 years of the coup, the Houthis took hundreds of civilians and employees of international and international organizations “hostage” after arresting them and forcibly disappearing them in a complete war crime and a serious violation of the laws of war.