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Ar 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.
The four media workers were targeted 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.
The organization, in a press statement, deplored the continuous hostile approach of the militia to journalists and media workers.
WJWC has once again warned all parties to the conflict to continue to target journalists, noting that journalists pay a terrible price for their professional mission and were subjected to grave violations.
“Journalism has lost 18 journalists while many hundreds have been detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured, and some have fled the country as well during a year and eight months of the war in Yemen. In addition, offices and headquarters of opposition media outlets were shut down”, WJWC stated in its press statement.
The human rights defender stressed the need to investigate all the crimes committed against journalists and bring the perpetrators to justice in order to receive their fitting punishment, emphasizing that there shouldn’t be impunity for those who committed violations against journalists.
The organization called on all human rights organizations to condemn the targeting of journalists and attempted murders.
