Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) expresses deep sorrow over physical and mental torture practiced by the Houthis in Sana'a City against journalists and preventing their families from visiting them.
On May 09, ten journalists started a hunger strike, protesting the mistreatment practiced against them by militias of the Houthis, declaring that they would continue their strike until being released.
WJWC warns against the torture practiced by the Houthis against detainees, pointing out that they commit crimes against freedom of expression and violate thehumanitarian international laws.
While WJWC expresses solidarity with detained journalists, it calls for immediately releasing them and halting using journalists as a card of political bargaining.
WJWC calls all local and international organizations to express their solidarity with the journalists who are in a hunger strike inside Houthi custodies. It also urges them to put pressures on the Houthis to press the journalists.