A member of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate YJS has been assaulted by a guard working for a senior official in the Marib province’s traffic department after he had been threatened by the same person who also confiscated some of his personal belongings.

Forensic medical report today revealed that the death of 35-year-old investigative journalist, al-Absi, was a direct result of poisoning.

Mansour Assamadi, an editor at the Houthi-controlled official newspaper of Al Thawrah, has reported he was subjected to threats from an unknown caller in the rebel-held capital Sanaa.

The news website alrasefpress.net has been penetrated and hacked by the Houthi militia and ousted president Ali Saleh, according to the website management.

A Yemeni journalist has been pursued and arrested by the criminal investigation unit under control of the Iran-backed Houthi militia and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen’s capital, according to Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS).

Almasdaronline – Abductees’ Mothers on Thursday held a protest in front of the political security headquarters in Yemen’s militia-held capital Sanaa to demand the release of their kidnapped sons.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) reported it had been informed by the colleagues in the news website "Al Madena Now” that their site has been penetrated and hacked into by unknowns who also resorted to hiding the site’s archive.

The Iran-backed Houthi militia today released Alwahdawi newspaper’s financial and administrative officer Haitham Aoun who had been abducted two weeks ago.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns yesterday’s abduction of the journalist Taiseer Assamiee when he was passing through a militia-controlled checkpoint in Dimnat Khadir area in Taiz province, and was taken to a jail affiliated to the militias of Houthis and ousted president Saleh.

Militias of Houthis and ousted president, Ali Saleh, Monday morning, abducted the colleague Taiseer Assamiee in Dimnat Khadir district located in southeast city of Taiz in central Yemen.

Yemen ranked fourth among the countries with the highest murder rates of journalists and media staff worldwide during the 2016 year.

The reality of journalists in Yemen oscillated between being killed, kidnapped, tortured and threatened during the year 2016, in light of the continued control of the militias of the Houthi group and ousted president Ali Saleh over the capital Sanaa and other provinces by force of arms.