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.
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"Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has expressed its condemnation of the attack on the head of the “association of faculty members and their assistants” at University of Sanaa, Dr. Mohammed Al Dhahiri, members of the administrative body of the faculty union and a number of professors by the Houthi militia on campus.
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.
Women Journalists Without Chains has condemned in the strongest terms an attempted murder against four journalists and media photographers, Fawaz Al Hammadi from Belqees TV and Abdulqawi Al Azzani and Abu Bakr Al Yousofi from Yemen Youth TV as well as the photojournalist Mohammed Hizam, by a sniper working for Houthi-Saleh militia on Wednesday.
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.
Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate has held the leadership of Yemen’s militia-controlled Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research responsible for any kind of harm or risks caused to YJS’s member Arwa al-Gharaphy and her family.
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.