The association of “Mothers of the abductees" has condemned the blatant attack on a group of women while they were ready to stage a protest for the release of their sons abducted in Houthi jails in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital Sana’a coinciding with the visit of UN special envoy to Sana’a.

Iran-backed militias of Houthis supported by ousted president Saleh conducted, on Friday, a wider campaign of abductions against activists and local notables and dignitaries in the village of al-Haqab affiliated to Damt District in southern province of Dalea.

Almasdar’s Media Foundation has called for immediate release of the journalist Taufik al-Mansouri and other fellow journalists detained in jails of the Houthi militia.

Women Journalists Without Chains has condemned the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh for mass arrest campaign against civil activists and opposition figures taken place on Saturday in the village of al-Haqab located in Damt district, in the province of Dalea.

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Tawakkol Karman has donated 2016 Freedom Award’s prize money she received yesterday from the US National Civil Rights Museum to relief efforts in Yemen’s Tihama region.

Yemen’s National Campaign Against Torture has called on the United Nations and the Committee Against Torture (CAT) to intervene immediately to stop the torture of prisoners and abductees by the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh allied with it.

Association of Abductees’ Mothers carried out today a protest in front of United Nations headquarters in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sanaa, in order to denounce the Iran-backed Houthi militia for mistreatment of their sons in prisons.

Militiamen of Houthis and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have released the son of the journalist, Tariq Saad, after they kidnapped him from in front of his own home and taken him to an unknown destination where he was tortured.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate’s Hodeidah branch has announced that its relation officer, Mansour al-Duba’ey was threatened with dismissal for the university by the president of Hodeidah University, Dr. Ahmed al-Da'ar, for publishing a report on two cholera deaths in Ouloufi University Hospital in Yemen’s western port city of Hodeidah.

Women Journalists Without Chains strongly condemns abduction and physical and psychological torture suffered by the journalist Tariq Saad’s son who was taken on the evening of Monday, October 10, from in front of his own home in Andalus district in Yemen’s militia-held capital to an unknown destination.

Yemen’s human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman, along with the journalist and executive producer Soledad O'Brien, WNBA champion and activist Swin Cash, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, the judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court The Honorable Damon Jerome Keith and attorney and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson, has been named among this year’s Freedom Award Honorees.

Women Journalists Without Chains condemns in the strongest terms the killing of hundreds of people in an airstrike hitting a funeral hall full of mourners on October 8, 2016 in the capital Sanaa.