Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has expressed deep sadness and regret over the death of the writer and journalist Mohammed Al Absi who passed away on Tuesday evening in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, and mystery still surrounds his untimely demise.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh have kidnapped journalists and held them hostages in private prisons, without being able to contact their relatives.

Yemeni video journalist Nabil Hassan today was rewarded the Rory Peck Award for his work in Yemen covering fighting between Shiite Houthi rebels and government forces.

The anniversary of the World Human Rights Day marking the 10th December of each year, in which the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris in 1948, falls today at a time when Yemen is living a tragic humanitarian situation as a result of the coup led by Houthi-Saleh militias against the legitimate authority.

Yemen’s Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has condemned the attack on the photojournalist, Khalid Ben Aaqilah, by an armed group in the port city of Mukalla, east of Yemen.

The Sana’a-based association of abductees’ mothers has revealed that a dead body of an abductee, bearing severe signs of torture, was found kept at Revolution Hospital’s mortuary in the port city of Hodeida.

The health of detained journalist Abdul Khaliq Imran has so badly deteriorated that he has been no longer able to move after he had been tortured at the political security prison by the Houthi militia that rejects every attempt to take him to hospital, according to his brother.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate has condemned the “occupation” of its headquarters in the port city of Aden by militants belonging to Aden’s deputy governor Ali Haitham and director of Tawahi Directorate, Abdel Hameed Naser.

Yemeni journalist, Aladdin Al Sallali, has won the 2016 Nile Award for Media granted by Egyptian Ministry of Culture in the field of investigative journalism in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.

Radio Sawa’s correspondent and London-based Asharq al-Awsat’s reporter, Arafat Mudabesh, on Thursday was rewarded the 2016 David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) renewed the call for the immediate release of all kidnapped journalists in jails of the militias of the Iran-baked Houthi group and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, stressing that the international community should not keep silent about the maltreatment and inhumane conditions Yemen’s detained journalists are suffering from in detention.

The family of the detained journalist, Abdul Khaliq Imran, has voiced concern about his deteriorating health condition after it was reported that he suffers from severe spinal pain, while the Houthi militias refuse to transfer him to hospital for treatment.