2024-08-14
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According to Xinhua News Agency, Kuwait City, August 13, Sana'a: United Nations officials and Yemeni government officials told Xinhua News Agency reporters on the 13th thatThe office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yemeni capital Sanaa has been forcibly closed by the Houthi armed forces。
UN and Yemeni government officials said Houthi militants raided the UN Human Rights Office in Sanaa on the 8th and 9th.Confiscated vehicles, funds, documents, computer hard drives containing important information and many other assets。
A UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Houthis entered the office at gunpoint, expelled the staff and closed the office after conducting a comprehensive search and confiscating property.
A senior Yemeni government official said the latest developments followed a series of Houthi operations against UN and international organization staff in Sanaa. He said that the Houthis arrested several Yemeni citizens working for the UN Human Rights Office, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and other agencies in Sanaa in June this year, and they are still being held.
Ahmed Alman, Minister of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Yemeni government, said in July that the Houthis have arrested more than 50 staff and rescuers from the United Nations, international organizations and non-governmental organizations in Sanaa since early June. In response, the Houthis issued a statement saying that the arrested local humanitarian workers cooperated with foreign intelligence agencies including the United States.
In July, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Grundberg called for the immediate and unconditional release of UN staff and aid workers held by the Houthis.
In 2014, the Houthi armed forces seized Sanaa and the Yemeni government was forced to move to the southern city of Aden. The Houthi armed forces currently control most of the northern territory of the country and the main Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. (Reporter Yin Zhi)
Editor: Li Yilinzi