Human rights experts working for the United Nations are urging 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 experts said on Monday that 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 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.”
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.”The 12 were released only after signing a pledge not to communicate with other Baha’is and “refrain from engaging in any Baha’i activities,” the experts said. They are also not allowed to leave their hometowns without permission.
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