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.

The Sana’a-based association of abductees’ mothers on Thursday called for an international probe into the torture-to-death crimes in prisons of the Houthi militia and ousted president Ali Saleh.

The militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh have transferred sixteen kidnapped journalists including the colleague, Yusuf Ajlan, to the Political Security Prison in the militia-held capital, Sanaa, a human rights source said on Thursday.

Offices of three journalists at Yemen’s rebel-held official newspaper of Al-Thawra have been broken into by the acting deputy chairman of the board of directors at Al-Thawra media foundation, Osama Sari along with a number of armed escorts who ejected the thee employees from the offices and tampered with contents, according to Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS).

The Houthi-controlled Yemen News Agency (SABA) has recently stopped salaries of five journalists and threatened them with removing from their jobs.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) on Saturday said the attorney general appointed by the Iran-backed Houthi militia fabricated “a deceptive and false report”, which claims that the journalists abducted in Houthi jails have not been tortured during their stay in political security-affiliated prisons.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists´ Syndicate (YJS), in mourning the death in mysterious circumstances of a Yemeni journalist on 20 December.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate(YJS) said it received a press release from the colleagues Amin Mohammed Sharaf, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Abdo and Waheeb Al Nosary stating that the site administration of Sawtshouraonline published by the political party “Union of Popular Forces” fired them from jobs after ten years of working at the website and Al-Shoura newspaper.

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) has called for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Journalist Mohamed Abdu Al Absi, who died on Tuesday in mysterious conditions in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has expressed deep sadness and regret over the death of the writer and journalist Mohammed Al Absi who passed away on Tuesday evening in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, and mystery still surrounds his untimely demise.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh have kidnapped journalists and held them hostages in private prisons, without being able to contact their relatives.

Yemeni video journalist Nabil Hassan today was rewarded the Rory Peck Award for his work in Yemen covering fighting between Shiite Houthi rebels and government forces.