Amnesty International accused pro-government Yemeni troops battling Houthi forces for control of the southwestern city of Taiz of harassing medical staff and putting fighters among the civilian population, in charges the authorities strongly denied. Civilians in Taiz, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, have been trapped by intense fighting, with dead bodies lying in the streets and hundreds of people wounded this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Amnesty, a London-based human rights watchdog, said that so-called Popular Committees – anti-Houthi local militias backed by exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government – had detained and threatened to kill medical staff in Taiz and deployed tanks outside hospitals.
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Amnesty says pro-Hadi Yemen fighters harassing medics in Taiz