In conjunction with World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS), along with a group of media workers and activists, plans to launch a large-scale electronic campaign to support journalists kidnapped by the Iran-backed Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Saleh.

Journalist Essam Belghaith’s health condition has deteriorated and his life will be in real danger if he is not transferred to hospital for treatment, reported a source close the detained journalist.

Yemeni journalist Hadeel Al Yamani, Al Jazeera correspondent in Taiz province, has won 2017 Courage in Journalism Award granted to women journalists who set themselves apart by their extraordinary bravery.

The Houthi militia is brutally torturing the kidnapped journalist Taiseer Assamiee who was abducted by Houthi militiamen on January 2 from his hometown in Khadir district of Taiz province.

A war photographer was seriously wounded on Sunday while he was covering battles in the vicinity of Khalid camp located in Mawz’a district to the west of the city of Taiz (southwestern Yemen).

The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Wael Sharaha, has been threatened with liquidation and verbally assaulted by the Ministry of Health’s undersecretary for the therapeutic medicine sector in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sanaa, reports Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS).

Houthi militia has abducted a journalist’s father after breaking into his home in the coastal province of Hodeidah, west of the country.

In an attempt to intimidate and silence voices demanding salaries and financial rights, Houthi-controlled Public Funds Prosecution has summoned 14 employees of al-Thawra Foundation for Printing and Publishing for questioning on charges of inciting and rioting within the institution, reports barakish.net.

Houthi militia and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have forcibly displaced residents of al-Manabeha village in Qayfa district to the north of the central province of al-Bayda, local residents said on Monday.

A number of Houthi gunmen on Sunday stormed an all-girls school in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sana'a and committed physical and indecent assault on students and teachers after they refused to chant the Houthi group’s well-known anti-American-and-Jewish slogan, eyewitnesses said.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) expresses its strong condemnation of today’s death sentence against the journalist, Yahya Abdel Raqib al-Jubaihi.

News Yemen - A court under the authority of the militias of Houthis and ousted president Ali Saleh in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, today sentenced a journalist to death eight months after he had been abducted on trumped-up and falsified charges, including communicating with countries described as "hostile”, sources close to the family’s journalist Abdel Raqib al-Jubaihi was quoted as saying.