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.

Militiamen of Houthi group and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have prevented families of abductees from delivering winter clothes to their kidnapped relatives in prisons in Yemen’s militia-controlled capital Sana’a, according to Mothers of Abductees.

Al Masdar Media Foundation has called on the militia of Houthi group and ousted president Saleh to immediately release the fellow journalist Yusuf Ajlan who was kidnapped from outside his home on October 15.

Administrative board of “the union of faculty members and their assistants” at University of Sanaa issued an important statement, revealing details of the recent assault incident that happened against a number of professors on campus of the university by elements of the Houthi group on Saturday morning.

 Authorities of the southern port city of Mukalla released correspondents and photographs of Yemeni TV-channels of Yemen Youth TV, Belqees TV and Suhail TV on Thursday evening, Yemen Youth TV reported.

Two-man team of Belqees TV, Hamza Ameen and Majd Addeen Salem were arrested and received threats of imprisonment and physical liquidation by an armed group being stationed at the Revolution Hospital in province of Taiz, Belqees TV reported.

TV-Belqees’ correspondent, Fawaz Al Hammadi, has survived when a Houthi sniper shot him and his fellow photographer, Mohammed Hizam, who was injured while covering battles between troops belonging to Yemeni National Army and the Houthi militia supported by forces loyal to the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz province’s Assilw district.

Housebreakers broke into the house of journalist, Abdul Kareem Mohammad Abdul Kareem al-Razi, tempering with and causing serious damage to contents and looting tools and electrical appliances including electric power devices, TVs and monitors as well as prized possessions such as jewels and valuable accessories.

\The Houthi militia, besides many other militias, terrorist and criminal organizations, authoritarian government officials and religious leaders, has been put for six years in row on the list of "Predators of Press Freedom" released by Reporters without Borders to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Wednesday.