Current location:Global Grandstand news portal > opinions
Independent UN experts urge Yemen’s Houthis to free detained Baha'i followers
Global Grandstand news portal2024-05-21 14:38:51【opinions】6People have gathered around
IntroductionCAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebe
CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release five people from the country’s Baha’i religious minority who have been in detention for a year.
The five are among 17 Baha’i followers detained last May when the Houthis raided a Baha’i gathering in the capital of Sanaa. The experts said in a statement that 12 have since been released “under very strict conditions” but that five remain “detained in difficult circumstances.”
There have long been concerns about the treatment of the members of the Baha’i minority at the hands of the Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, who have ruled much of the impoverished Arab country’s north and the capital, Sanaa, since the civil war started in 2014.
The experts said they “urge the de facto authorities to release” the five remaining detainees, warning they were at “serious risk of torture and other human rights violations, including acts tantamount to enforced disappearance.”
Address of this article:http://northernmarianaislands.adventistmissionjapan.org/news-29e599448.html
Very good!(4293)
Related articles
- Justin Timberlake set to bring his The Forget Tomorrow World Tour to Australia in 2025
- Gaps found in battle against climate crisis
- Xi Extends Condolences to Greek President over Deadly Train Collision
- The world in photos: Feb 26 – March 3
- Pentagon vows to keep weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces a renewed assault by Russia
- New faces set to lead China
- COP28 sets eyes on AI to fight climate change
- Xi's Love for the Yellow River
- French sports minister calls for sanctions after Monaco player tapes over anti
- Fears mount that Italy's other leaning tower may fall
Popular articles
Recommended
What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky
FM mourns Kissinger, hails his contribution to ties
Xinhua Headlines: Xi Jinping Unanimously Elected Chinese President, PRC CMC Chairman
Jilin eyes stable foreign trade growth in 2024
Nuggets blow 20
Xi's Love for the Yellow River
Bangladesh PM Hasina wins reelection
China Focus: China Issues No. 1 Central Document for 2023, Highlights Rural Vitalization Tasks
Links
- Woman pleads guilty for role in 4 slayings stemming from custody dispute, sentenced to life
- Mesmerising charts show world's most and least populated countries over time
- Atlantic City mayor and his wife are charged with abusing their 16
- Deaf and mute teen is 'gang
- Son who offered £5,000 on Facebook to anyone would kill his father before punching the 72
- Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine, allies
- Fed's Powell: Elevated inflation will likely delay rate cuts this year
- Travis Kelce to host game show 'Are You Smarter than a Celebrity?'
- Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations
- Nadal returns to action with easy win over Cobolli in first round of Barcelona Open