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HOOD Criticizes Measures Depriving Jews from Social Rights
[Yemen Post] 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
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ...
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
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
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.

Posted by: Fred 2012-11-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=356907