{"id":42417,"date":"2021-11-19T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42417"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:04:49","slug":"the-united-states-condemns-the-houthi-detention-of-yemeni-staff-of-the-u-s-embassy-in-sanaa-and-breach-of-embassy-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42417","title":{"rendered":"The United States Condemns the Houthi Detention of Yemeni Staff of the U.S. Embassy in Sana\u2019a and Breach of Embassy Compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>11\/19\/2021 05:59 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The United States condemns the Houthis\u2019 detention and mistreatment of dozens of Yemeni citizens and their family members simply because they have worked for the United States in Sana\u2019a in a caretaker capacity since the U.S. Embassy there suspended operations in 2015.\u00a0 Several of these employees are still being held.\u00a0 The Houthis\u2019 unprovoked abuse of these Yemeni citizens is a gross disregard of\u00a0diplomatic norms, as is the Houthis\u2019 flagrant breach of the compound used by the U.S. Embassy prior to 2015.\u00a0 These actions are an affront to the entire international community.\u00a0 The Houthis must immediately release unharmed all Yemeni employees of the United States, vacate the Embassy compound, return seized property, and cease their threats.\u00a0 The United States is actively engaged in this matter and is consulting closely with our international partners, including fellow members of the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/19\/2021 05:59 PM EST &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42418,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}