YJS has confirmed that killers of journalists will not go unpunished and that there is no statute of limitations on such crimes, vowing to work hard to subject the perpetrators to the law of justice.

A journalist was severely injured on Friday night after an unidentified gunman assaulted him while he was on his way to work in the southern port city of Aden.

The association of “Mothers of the abductees" has condemned the blatant attack on a group of women while they were ready to stage a protest for the release of their sons abducted in Houthi jails in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital Sana’a coinciding with the visit of UN special envoy to Sana’a.

Iran-backed militias of Houthis supported by ousted president Saleh conducted, on Friday, a wider campaign of abductions against activists and local notables and dignitaries in the village of al-Haqab affiliated to Damt District in southern province of Dalea.

Almasdar’s Media Foundation has called for immediate release of the journalist Taufik al-Mansouri and other fellow journalists detained in jails of the Houthi militia.

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Tawakkol Karman has donated 2016 Freedom Award’s prize money she received yesterday from the US National Civil Rights Museum to relief efforts in Yemen’s Tihama region.

Yemen’s National Campaign Against Torture has called on the United Nations and the Committee Against Torture (CAT) to intervene immediately to stop the torture of prisoners and abductees by the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh allied with it.

Association of Abductees’ Mothers carried out today a protest in front of United Nations headquarters in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sanaa, in order to denounce the Iran-backed Houthi militia for mistreatment of their sons in prisons.

Militiamen of Houthis and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have released the son of the journalist, Tariq Saad, after they kidnapped him from in front of his own home and taken him to an unknown destination where he was tortured.