A young activist was killed yesterday evening by unknown gunmen in Yemen’s temporarily capital, Aden.

Unknown gunmen on Sunday held the journalist Abdel Aziz al-Majidi at gunpoint in front of his home in the city of Taiz in a failed attempt to loot his car after they smashed his car window and stole some things inside.

Eight Yemeni journalists were arrested and investigated at Aden airport in Southern Yemen on their return from a training course in Lebanon.

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has paid a tribute to journalists and media professionals worldwide for their struggle to uncover the truth and provide people with information with complete impartiality and professionalism.

This year’s World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3 of each year, comes at a time when press freedom in Yemen has been at its worst since 1990 due to increasing dangers and challenges it faces. The war waged by the Houthi militia and ousted President Ali Saleh's forces has led to hundreds of journalists being killed, tortured, forcibly disappeared, arrested, abducted and etc.

In conjunction with World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS), along with a group of media workers and activists, plans to launch a large-scale electronic campaign to support journalists kidnapped by the Iran-backed Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Saleh.

Journalist Essam Belghaith’s health condition has deteriorated and his life will be in real danger if he is not transferred to hospital for treatment, reported a source close the detained journalist.

Yemeni journalist Hadeel Al Yamani, Al Jazeera correspondent in Taiz province, has won 2017 Courage in Journalism Award granted to women journalists who set themselves apart by their extraordinary bravery.

The Houthi militia is brutally torturing the kidnapped journalist Taiseer Assamiee who was abducted by Houthi militiamen on January 2 from his hometown in Khadir district of Taiz province.

A war photographer was seriously wounded on Sunday while he was covering battles in the vicinity of Khalid camp located in Mawz’a district to the west of the city of Taiz (southwestern Yemen).

The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Wael Sharaha, has been threatened with liquidation and verbally assaulted by the Ministry of Health’s undersecretary for the therapeutic medicine sector in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sanaa, reports Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS).

Houthi militia has abducted a journalist’s father after breaking into his home in the coastal province of Hodeidah, west of the country.