In his remarks on the passing of a year since the militia imprisoned 12 employees of his country’s embassy and the UN in Sanaa, Tim Linding, the American envoy to Yemen, called the Houthi acts “an affront to the whole international community.”
In a statement, Linding reaffirmed his commitment to keeping up the pressure on the Houthi militia in Sanaa to free the staff members of his nation’s embassy and the UN.
“After a year, 12 staff members of the American embassy and the UN, all of whom are Yemeni citizens, are still being held among the Houthis without any explanation, and there are no methods of getting in touch with them,” he continued.
Linding pointed to the death of retired relief expert Abdel Hamid Al -Ajmi, one of the detainees, in a Houthi prison earlier this year, pointing to the difficult humanitarian situation that his family went through because of his death away from them.
How much misery would Yemeni families experience as a result of the Houthis, he asked?
The American representative said, “The Houthis’ acts are an insult to the Yemenis themselves, but they are also a disrespect to the entire world community.”
In the same vein, the USAID Agency (USAID) has urged the Houthi group once more to promptly release Yemeni workers for the American embassy and the UN, who have been detained in Sanaa since last year.
Samantha Power, the agency’s director, declared in a statement, “We are coming back today, Al-Houthi, to release our Yemeni colleagues working for the US government promptly and without condition or registration.”
She added that the Houthi group “detained former and current employees of the United States and the United Nations during the past year, and most of them were unable to communicate with their families.
She stressed that the group’s continued illegal incarceration of these people casts doubt on their willingness to bring peace back to Yemen, adding: “Houthi’s continued arrest of these people sends a troubling message about his commitment to peace.
One of them announced the death of the reservation earlier this year, and it is significant that the Houthi militia continues to detain 12 former and present Yemeni officials in the American embassy and the UN in Sana’a.
America: Houthi’s continued detention of our personnel is a disgrace to the world community
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