Yemeni president exiled in Saudi capital, Riyadh, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has been put under house arrest by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as evidenced by not allowing him to come back to Yemen’s interim capital Aden,

said Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman today. 

Mrs. Tawakkol Karman said in a statement on Facebook, addressing the Arab coalition, “to prove otherwise, you have to hand over areas, ports, airports, islands, coasts to the legitimate president of Yemen and his internationally recognized government.”  

In related context, she indicated that approximately 80 percent of the country's liberated areas have been controlled by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, in flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Yemen and its legitimate authority. 

Saudi Arabia and its allies, which receive logistical and intelligence help from the United States, claim they are fighting in Yemen in order to restore to power the internationally government represented by the legitimate president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi after the Iranian Houthi militia backed by forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh led their coup and took over the capital Sana’a in 2014.

According to the UN, more than 8,670 people, 60% of them civilians, have been killed and 49,900 injured in air strikes and fighting on the ground since March 2015.