High Commissioner Volker Türk confirmed the fact with a statement denouncing that the armed group forced the organization's workers to hand over objects such as documents, furniture and vehicles.
Yemen's Houthi rebels stormed the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Office in the capital Sanaa, where they confiscated documents, furniture and vehicles, a U.N. official said Tuesday.
The raid was part of a Houthi operation against people working with the UN, humanitarian agencies and foreign embassies. The Iranian-backed rebels also maintain a campaign of attacks on shipping traffic in the Red Sea corridor related to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The rebels they took over the facilities of the Human Rights Office en Sana on August 3, after forcing Yemeni UN workers to hand over items such as documents, furniture and vehicles, said the head of Human Rights of the United Nations, Volker Türk, in a statement.
“Ansar Allah forces must vacate the facilities and return all assets and belongings immediately,” Türk said, using the official name of the Houthis.
A Houthi spokesman did not return phone calls and messages seeking comment.
The Human Rights Office said it had suspended operations in Sana'a and other Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen following the June crackdown. But it still operates in government-controlled areas of the country with international recognition.
The Houthis detained in June more than 60 people who worked with the UN and other NGOs, according to the UN Human Rights Office. Among those detained were six workers from the rights office, who joined two other colleagues detained by the Houthis in November 2021 and August 2023, the agency said.
A few days after the arrests, the rebels said they had arrested members of what they described as an “American-Israeli spy network.”
The Houthis issued what they described as videotaped confessions from 10 Yemenis, several of whom said they were recruited by the U.S. embassy in Yemen.
The U.N. Human Rights Office said one of its detained employees had previously appeared in a video in which he was forced to confess to accusations, including some about espionage, the office said.
It was not possible to independently verify the Houthis' claims.
The armed group has waged a civil war with the internationally recognized Yemeni government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2014, when they took control of Sana'a and much of the north.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150.000 people, between combatants and civilians, and created one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the world, which has led to tens of thousands more deaths.
Rebels have imprisoned thousands of people during the war. In recent months they have redoubled the persecution of dissidence in their territory, which includes the recent death sentence of 44 people.
(with information from AP)
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BLESSING ISRAEL. DAMN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF THE (UN) WHAT NOW??? ARE YOU ALSO GOING TO SAY HAS ISRAEL DONE??? RESULTS OF DEFENDING THE TERRORIST AYATOLAHS OF HAMA AND HEZBOLA IS THIS.LONG LIVE ISRAEL.
YOU DAMN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF THE (UN) SALIVA HAS FALLEN ON YOUR FACE, YOU HAVE ANY INTENTION TO HELP THE TERRORISTS, THE RESULTS ARE THESE UNTIL THEY LOOTED YOUR DAMN OFFICES. LONG LIVE ISRAEL.
DAMN HEADS GIVE THE UN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NOW WHAT EXPLANATIONS ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE TO THE WORLD ABOUT MR. GUTERREZ THE AUTHENTIC ANTI-SEMITE??? ARE YOU GOING TO ACCUSE ISRAEL??? DO YOU STILL HAVE THE INTENTION OF BEING ON THE SIDE OF THE TERRORISTS???
But why do they attack their friends at the UN who have financed, protected and defended them?
Now they are against their friends. Everything is returned to those who protect evil.
Raise crows and they will gouge out your eyes.
The same thing happens in Europe, after they have welcomed the Muslims, they have given them everything, money, accommodation, education and respect, now they are attacking those who gave them everything.'
These people have no heart, respect or education, they are wild donkeys as the Bible says.
THERE IS ALSO WHAT TO SAY WHERE THE ARMAMENTS COME??? AND THERE ARE SOME COUNTRIES SAY WE HAVE ATTACKED THE HUTIE TERRORISTS??? HOWEVER THEY ARE STILL ATTACKING SHIPS???
THE LEGITIMATE STATE OF ISRAEL IN AN ATTACK HAS LEFT IT TO DUST TO THE HUTIE TERRORISTS!!! AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES WHAT THEY SAID WE HAVE ATTACKED, HAS NOTHING HAPPENED TO THE HUTIE TERRORISTS??? WHAT DROPPED THE BOMBS INTO THE SEA OR IN DECERTIES??? LONG LIVE ISRAEL.