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Four journalists and photographers survive assassination attempt, WJWC condemns incident and warns against targeting of media workers

TV-Belqees’ correspondent, Fawaz Al Hammadi, has survived when a Houthi sniper shot him and his fellow photographer, Mohammed Hizam, who was injured 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.

Four journalists and photographers survive assassination attempt, WJWC condemns incident and warns against targeting of media workers

WJWC strongly condemns an attempted murder against four media workers

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.

Houthi militia once again on RSF’s list of predators of press freedom

\The Houthi militia, besides many other militias, terrorist and criminal organizations, authoritarian government officials and religious leaders, has been put for six years in row on the list of "Predators of Press Freedom" released by Reporters without Borders to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Wednesday.

Houthi militia once again on RSF’s list of predators of press freedom
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