Women Journalists Without Chains called on the United Nations to create an international commission of inquiry into serious human rights violations committed in Aden and Hadhramaut by military and security forces of the United Arab Emirates, expose the perpetrators of these violations and bring them to justice.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) expresses its deep concern over human rights violations committed in the Yemeni provinces of Aden and Hadhramaut, where dozens of people, including children, have been arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and abused in secret network of prisons run by the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni proxy forces.

Employees at the media institutions of Yemen’s exiled government in Riyad have recently announced their intention to be on an open strike starting June 20 after they have not been paid for five months.

Yemeni Belqees TV has has strongly condemned in a statement the incitement against its staff members in Aden, the interim capital Yemen, accusing certain parties in the city of being behind the assault.

Yemen Youth TV correspondent, Abdul Aziz al-Dubhani, was subjected to shrapnel wounds on Wednesday while covering clashes between government forces and the Houthi militia backed by forces loyal to ousted president Ali Saleh in the east of Taiz.

Two children were shot dead by a Houthi militant at a militia-controlled checkpoint in Hubaish district to the north of Ibb city, while another child was tortured to death by her relative in Jiblah district to the south of the city, said a local source.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has condemned the detention of the journalist Nabil al-Sa’fani at a security point in Marib located in the east of Yemen.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the crime the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Saleh committed today when they fired a mortar shell at a gathering of journalists while covering battles in areas to the east of Taiz province, resulting in the killing of photojournalists Wael al-Absi and Taqi al-Din al-Huthaifi and the media activist Sa’ad al-Nidhari, the amputation of the leg of Walid al-Qadasi and the injury of Salah al-Din al-Wahbani; all of them have been working for local media.

Three journalists were killed and two others were injured this morning after being targeted by a mortar shell fired by the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted President Ali Saleh while covering the battles near Tashrifat camp to the east of the city of Taiz.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns the threats of death and slaughter and accusations of infidelity and atheism against the female journalist Hanan Nasser by an unknown person who set a deadline for her repentance because she has been following up the cause of the assassinated activist Amjad Mohammed Abdulrahman who was accused of atheism.

Women Journalists without Chains has congratulated the journalist Muheeb Zoui on his win of Najiba Al Hamrouni Prize for Arab Journalism for his article published last year entitled "Yemeni women in the Face of Centralism".

The so-called security belt in Yemen’s interim capital, Aden, today released the journalist Hani al-Junaid, who- along with two others- was arrested on Tuesday.