Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has reiterated demand for immediate release of 17 journalists abducted by the militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and of the colleague Mohammed al-Moqri al-Qaeda has kidnapped for more than a year and three months in southern port city of Mukalla.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has strongly condemned the continued and systematic violations against the abducted colleagues, holding the de facto authority represented by the militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh fully responsible for their lives and calling for their immediate release and taking them to hospitals for treatment.

At least 208 human rights abuses, including nine cases of death, against journalists and media workers in Yemen were committed during the year of 2016, stated Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC).

The team responsible for the death case of journalist Mohammed Abdu Al Absi has demanded not to share or deal with any fabricated or leaked information in this regard in order to preserve the integrity of procedures and results, explaining that statements from any source or individual other than the team members are unreliable.

A checkpoint of Aden’s Security Belt on Sunday morning intercepted a bus owned by “The Daily News” newspaper, assaulted on the chew aboard who were on their way to distribute Sunday’s edition, and held them for hours while their bus and large number of copies were confiscated, according to Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS).

Istanbul-based Belqees TV has reported that its correspondent in Yemen’s Taiz province, Fawaz al-Hammadi, has escaped an attempted murder by gunmen in the city.

The Houthi militia taking over Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, today decided to stop six employees working for the militia-controlled official institution of Al-Thawrah for Press and Printing, and bring them to the public prosecution against the backdrop of demands for wage entitlements.

The IFJ has welcomed calls by Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, for a thorough independent inquiry into the death of investigative reporter Mohammed al-Absi in Yemen.

February Revolution has represented a landmark in the history of Yemen and put Yemeni people on the right path, said the human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman.

Amin al-Shafaq, a youth activist, was released on Friday after he had been abducted for 487 days by the Houthi militia.

In the wake of autopsy results indicating that investigative journalist Mohamed Al-Absi was poisoned, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent and impartial investigation to establish all the circumstances of his death and to bring those responsible to justice.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns the assault on a group of journalists working for al-Thawra Institution for Press, Printing and Publishing when Houthi militiamen opened fire on them during a sit-in staged on Wednesday to protest against non-payment of their monthly financial incentives by the militia-controlled institution.