UN demands Houthis return body of human rights office worker who died in their custody

NEW YORK CITY: The UN demanded on Friday that the Houthis return the body of Mohammed El-Shami, a Yemeni employee of its human rights office who died while detained by the militia. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric urged the Houthis to hand the body over to El-Shami’s family “without any further delay, enabling a dignified burial,” and added that nothing could justify withholding his remains from them. “What reason could there be?” he said when asked why the Houthis would refuse to release th