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Yemen: Houthi Hostage-Taking

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Expand Former detainees described Houthi officers beating them with iron rods, wooden sticks, and assault rifles. © 2018 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The Houthi armed group in Yemen has frequently taken hostages and committed other serious abuses against people in their custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Houthi officials should stop taking hostages, free everyone arbitrarily detained, end torture and enforced disappearances, and punish those responsible for abuses. Human Rights Watch documented 16 cases in which Houthi authorities held people unlawfully, in large part…

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