Yemen

CPJ strongly condemns the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition’s recent airstrike on a Yemeni radio station.

The Houthis detained at least three current and former Yemeni journalists.

Yemeni authorities should investigate an attack on a media foundation’s offices and the abduction of at least seven people from the building.

Elite security forces of the Coalition-backed Yemeni army detained Awad Kashmeen on February 21.

One of Yemen’s most prominent political analysts and activists has been held incommunicado by Houthi rebels since 14 August 2017.

Blocking of news sites and internet shutdowns follow renewed attacks on journalists.

PEN International welcomes news of the release of prominent Yemeni journalist and writer Mohammad Yahya al-Jubaihi, who was recently pardoned by the Supreme Political Council in Sana’a.

Al-Omeisy, 38, has been an important voice in Yemen. He has used social media, tweeting in English and Arabic, to report on and analyze events in real-time, including airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition supporting the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Shawqi Hussein, a reporter for the broadcaster Al-Maseerah, and cameraman Kamal al-Kabsi were injured in an airstrike on July 30, 2017, in the Shabwa province town of Bayhan, Yahya al-Kabsi, a graphic designer in Al-Maseerah’s Beirut office, told CPJ.

The Huthi and allied forces should immediately and unconditionally release ten Yemeni journalists detained arbitrarily without charge or trial, said nine NGOs, on the second anniversary of their detention.

A court in rebel-held Sana’a sentenced veteran journalist Yahya Al Jubaihi, who has been detained since 6 September 2016, on charges of collaborating and spying for an “enemy state”.

Journalist AbdelKhalee Omran remains captive in a “political security” prison in Sana’a controlled by Houthi rebels together with eight other colleagues. He has been heavily tortured in captivity.

As messaging app remains mysteriously blocked in war-torn Yemen, many families struggle to find news of their relatives and loved ones.

Eight journalists have been killed since the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen began. Another two individuals who worked as media support staff have also been killed since the start of the crisis.

Ma’reb Press website correspondent Abdallah Azizan was killed on 29 May while covering clashes between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in Bayhan, east of the capital.

The ten Yemeni journalists have been detained by the Houthis in Sana’a for over a year. They began a hunger strike on 9 May to protest against their maltreatment in prison.