The Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) has criticized tight security measures imposed on the Yemeni Jews amid threats by the Shiite Houthi Group to target them.
Hood said in a letter to the chief of the national security and interior minister the Jews, who were relocated from their villages in Saada to the capital Sanaa, are living in a prison under the tight security measures including those preventing them from moving and contacting other people.
"The Jews are Yemenis and have the right to move, talk and contact other Yemenis, and the security measures…allegedly to protect them…violate human rights and could be a crime," the letter said.
"We demand to lift the siege on the Yemeni Jews, who live in the tourist city after they were enforcedly relocated because of harassment in northern regions," it said.
The letter was sent after the organization received a complaint that the police at the tourist city have prevented visiting the Jews except through permission from the interior ministry.