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Saudi TV’s cameraman, Wael Al Absi, was wounded by shrapnel in his back on Wednesday when a Houthi sniper shot him while covering battles near the presidential palace area, east of the city of Taiz, which has been suffering from a suffocating siege imposed by the Iran-backed Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh for almost two years.
Journalists and media workers have been exposed on a daily basis to serious violations of their human rights by the Houthi militia and ousted president’s forces, and these violations reached their peak when militiamen ended up targeting them directly.
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has monitored 140 cases of violations, including six cases of deaths, committed against journalists and media workers during the first half of the year 2016.
