Yemeni Journalists Syndicate(YJS) said it received a press release from the colleagues Amin Mohammed Sharaf, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Abdo and Waheeb Al Nosary stating that the site administration of Sawtshouraonline published by the political party “Union of Popular Forces” fired them from jobs after ten years of working at the website and Al-Shoura newspaper.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has called for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Journalist Mohamed Abdu Al Absi, who died on Tuesday in mysterious conditions in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh have kidnapped journalists and held them hostages in private prisons, without being able to contact their relatives.

Yemeni video journalist Nabil Hassan today was rewarded the Rory Peck Award for his work in Yemen covering fighting between Shiite Houthi rebels and government forces.

Yemen’s Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has condemned the attack on the photojournalist, Khalid Ben Aaqilah, by an armed group in the port city of Mukalla, east of Yemen.

The Sana’a-based association of abductees’ mothers has revealed that a dead body of an abductee, bearing severe signs of torture, was found kept at Revolution Hospital’s mortuary in the port city of Hodeida.

The health of detained journalist Abdul Khaliq Imran has so badly deteriorated that he has been no longer able to move after he had been tortured at the political security prison by the Houthi militia that rejects every attempt to take him to hospital, according to his brother.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate has condemned the “occupation” of its headquarters in the port city of Aden by militants belonging to Aden’s deputy governor Ali Haitham and director of Tawahi Directorate, Abdel Hameed Naser.

Yemeni journalist, Aladdin Al Sallali, has won the 2016 Nile Award for Media granted by Egyptian Ministry of Culture in the field of investigative journalism in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.