The United nation agency, UNESCO, today condemned the killing of Yemeni journalist, Awab Al Zubairi, in a landmine explosion in the southwestern city of Taiz, calling for measures to improve the safety of journalists in Yemen.
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Yemeni journalists abducted in prisons of Houthis and ousted president Saleh have made a distress call to save the detained fellow journalist Abdul Khaliq Imran who is suffering from spinal pain.
"Three-member crew working for Sky News Arabia survived death on Wednesday after a landmine exploded nearby while they were filming a demining of landmines planted by militiamen of Houthis and ousted president Saleh in Al Jahmaliya neighborhood, east of Taiz.
A number of families in Ibb province held a protest on Tuesday morning to demand the release of their members kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by militias of Houthis and ousted president Saleh.
Houthi militia and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have refused to transfer journalist Abdul Khaliq Imran to hospital after having a spinal injury due to exposure to torture in prison since over a year.
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has said it was deeply saddened to learn that Taiz News Network’s photojournalist, Awab Al Zubairi, had been killed on Friday in an explosion of a residential building booby-trapped by the militia of Iran-backed Houthis allied with ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in a neighborhood, east of Taiz province.
Photojournalist Awab Al Zubairi on Friday was killed in an explosion of booby-trapped building in one of the eastern neighborhoods of the city of Taiz.
An armed group has subjected journalist Nezar Al Khalid to harassment, attempted arrest, abuse and defamation on Baghdad Street in Yemen’s militia-controlled capital Sanaa, Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) says.
Hundreds of opponents in Yemen have been arbitrarily detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared at the hands of the de facto authority represented by Houthi militia and ousted president Saleh, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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.
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) on Monday condemned the kidnapping of Yusuf Ajlan, former editor of Al MASDAR-online news site, in front of his home in the capital Sana'a on October 15 by the militia of Houthi group and ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.