US denounces Houthis over continued detention of Yemen embassy staffers

The United States condemns the ongoing detention of current and former local staffers of the US embassy in Yemen by the Houthi movement.

“The United States condemns the Houthis’ ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the US Mission to Yemen,” US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott says in a statement.

“The Houthis’ arrests of those staff, and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them, are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people as a way to stay in power,” Pigott says.

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