US EditionHouthis Say 43 Detained UN Staff to Face Trial over Israeli Attack
Forty-three UN staff face trial over suspected links to an Israeli airstrike that killed top Houthi leaders in August, with UN condemning arbitrary detentions.
- On Sunday, Houthi security forces entered several United Nations offices in Sanaa, and forty-three detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike in August.
- Yemen's Houthi rebels have governed territory since 2014–15, including Sanaa, and after Oct. 7, 2023, they attacked shipping lanes to support the Palestinian militant group.
- The United Nations reported 36 arrests and said at least 59 UN personnel are being held, while it has repeatedly rejected accusations that local United Nations staff were involved in spying.
- The United Nations condemned the detentions as arbitrary and called for immediate release, warning Houthi actions hinder aid delivery while Yemenis could face the death penalty under Yemeni law.
- Authorities say the detentions were conducted under full judicial supervision and that `The public prosecution was kept informed step by step with every action taken,` while hundreds of U.N. personnel remain in Houthi-controlled Yemen amid ongoing tensions with Israel and Iran's allies.
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In recent months Israel has deliberately killed the Chief of Staff of the Huthis and other leadership cadres. Now more than three dozen Yemeni Uno employees are threatened with death. They are suspected of collaboration.
UN staff accused of killing Houthi leaders, set to face trial in Yemen
The prime minister of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa in August, the first such attack to kill senior officials. A total of 36 United Nations employees were arrested after that attack, the UN said on Friday. It is not clear how many of those would stand trial.
The Straits Times
The New ArabHouthis say detained UN staff to face trial over Israeli attack
SANAA - Detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in Yemen in August, the acting foreign minister of the Houthi government told Reuters. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Al-Monitor
Houthis say 43 detained UN staff to face trial over Israeli attack
By Abdulrhman Al-Ansi and Khaled AbdullahSANAA (Reuters) -Forty-three detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in August, the acting foreign minister of Yemen’s Houthi government, Abdulwahid Abu Ras, told Reuters.In August, the prime minister of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the…
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