UN envoy demands release of detained employees in Yemen

3/9/2025 7:29

UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a statement on Tuesday that he met Houthi chief negotiator Mohammed Abdelsalam along with Omani officials in Muscat, the Omani capital, demanding the release of UN staff employees detained by the Houthi group in northern Yemen.



In the meeting, Grundberg expressed his strong condemnation of the recent, and reportedly ongoing, wave of arbitrary detentions of UN personnel by the Houthis in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah, demanding their immediate release.



He stressed that detentions of UN, NGO, civil society, and diplomatic mission personnel, as well as the forced entry into UN premises and seizure of UN property by the Houthis, seriously endanger the UN's ability to operate in Yemen and deliver much-needed assistance.