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News Yemen - A court under the authority of the militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, today sentenced a journalist to death eight months after he had been abducted on trumped-up and falsified charges, including communicating with countries described as "hostile”, sources close to the family’s journalist Abdel Raqib al-Jubaihi was quoted as saying.
According to the sources, the family was surprised by the death sentence, as it was handed down without trial and a lawyer was not assigned to defend him.
The journalist’s family has called for a protest in front of the political security building in Sana'a.
Al-Jubaihi has served as the head of the media department of the Prime Minister's Office, and as a professor at Media College of University of Sana'a.
For its part, Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) expresses its strong condemnation of today’s death sentence against the journalist, Yahya Abdel Raqib al-Jubaihi.
The death sentence against the journalist comes in the context of hostile practices and a systematically barbaric policy adopted by the putschists against journalists and media workers since they took over the legitimate authority, confirms WJWC.
WJWC, while condemning all sentences the militias issue against journalists, human rights activists and politicians in a flagrant violation of justice’s spirit and international laws, conventions and charters, shows its unequivocal solidarity with the journalist al-Jubaihi as well as with all journalists and media professionals who have been subjected to torture in militia prisons for more than two years.
Women Journalists Without Chains calls upon all human rights and civil organizations to stand up for journalists and media workers and to protect them from grave violations they are constantly subjected to.
