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Republican senators ask Biden's UN rep to highlight Houthi rights abuses

Some Houthi officials in Yemen have already been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations this year.
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A group of Republican senators are demanding the Biden administration bring international attention to alleged human rights abuses committed by Houthi forces in Yemen.

Sen. Jim Risch of Idado, who is the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the publication of the letter on Monday to US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

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