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.

To mark the International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists, UNESCO along with some international organizations will launch a video campaign on November 2, calling upon Yemeni journalists to participate in it.

Women Journalists Without Chains condemns in the strongest terms today’s heinous crime the Houthi-Saleh militias have committed against civilians in Beer Basha area of Taiz province where at least nine, including 4 children, were killed and dozens of others were injured.

Women Journalists Without Chains condemns the stab attack on Waleed al-Sharaby, the managing editor of Arsefa’s News Agency and the secretary of Today’s News newspaper, who was stabbed many times at his head by someone unknown while he was leaving his office on Friday in the province of Aden. 

Women Journalists Without Chains expresses deep concern at the continuation of physical and psychological torture politicians, journalists, human rights activists and detainees are being subjected to in prisons of the militias of Houthis and Saleh, where more than 24 detainees have died as a result of torture; some have been used as human shields.