Yemen

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights calls on authorities to hold to account the perpetrators of the attack on Aden International Airport that left at least 25 dead, including Yemeni journalist Adeeb Al-Janani.

The murder of photojournalist Nabil Al-Qaiti and arrest of journalist Abdullah Awad Bakir highlight an increasingly alarming environment for journalists in the country.

Over 150 NGOs from around the world call for the death sentences of four Yemeni journalists to be overturned.

Exiled journalists from Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Yemen speak to ICORN about the challenges of reporting the truth when governments are using the pandemic to justify surveillance and impose harder restrictions on the press.

As the conflict in Yemen between Houthi forces and the Saudi-Emirati coalition continues, rights groups call for an end to the abduction, torture, and trial of Yemeni journalists.

Among the many victims of the Yemen war are human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and activists. We encourage the GEE to ensure that upcoming reports increase the focus on the ongoing attacks by all the parties to the conflict specifically perpetrated against human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and Internet activists.

Most of these 20 journalists were kidnapped by either government forces or non-government forces and, in most cases, their families lack precise information about where they are being held or what has happened to them.

The journalist was reportedly arrested while trying to interview protesters injured by forces aligned with the Saudi-led coalition.

Men armed with knives entered the agency’s offices, tore up posters and threatened journalists; no-one was injured.

CPJ has reported on the climate of fear and intimidation in areas under both government and Houthi control.

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate has confirmed that the group of journalists abducted by Ansar Allah (Houthis) in 2015 have been tortured.

The IFJ urges the UN special envoy to “bring their full authority and the powerful array of legal tools at their disposal to demand the immediate and non-negotiable release” of the abducted journalists.

The rights defenders were both summoned by the Houthi-held National Security Office in Sana’a for a meeting, were arrested on arrival and held incommunicado without having access to their families or a lawyer.

Journalist Faisal Al-Dhahbani said that he and cameraman Ziad al-Sharaabi went to a restaurant to have dinner where a nearby motorcycle exploded, killing al-Sharaabi and six other civilians while injuring many more.

An appeal from Makhashin’s family five days after his detention stated that his health had already suffered as a result of poor conditions in prison and his ongoing hunger strike.

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeted Radio Hodeidah, killing at least four people, and field research assistant Kamal Al-Shawish was released.