Yemen Monitor/Newsroom
Activists and human rights defenders called today, Tuesday, for the urgent release of detainees from the Houthi grip and not to leave them as scapegoats in the armed group’s prisons.
Human rights activist Huda al-Sarari said: “We are waiting for the responses and positions of the international organizations whose employees were arrested, and they were shown confessions that it is clear that they were extracted from them under pressure and threats.”
She added that the consequences of the events are very dangerous if the detainees are not released from the Houthi madness, they will fall as scapegoats, therefore we must move ,use all means and procedures and exert more pressure to release them.
She considered the accusations launched by the group against the detainees of spying for Israel and America as a ready-made saying to throw the Houthis’ victims.
She explained that it came in response to the transfer of international organizations their offices permanently to Aden, and before that the decisions of the Central Bank, transportation and communications.
She confirmed that the armed group was then struck by hysteria, which made it stumble, as if it was possessed, and considered these crazy actions as the beginning of the end that will rid us of them.
The Houthi group announced in a statement broadcast on television on Monday that it had arrested a “US-Israeli spy network,” just days after arresting dozens of UN and US embassy employees.
