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Gunmen try to kidnap colleague Khaled Dalaq

Yemeni Journalists Syndicate(YJS) said it had received a press release from the journalist Khaled Dlaq stating that he was intercepted by two gunmen aboard a taxi in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa on 12 December in attempt to kidnap him but he was able to elude them.

Gunmen try to kidnap colleague Khaled Dalaq

New Study by WJWC Shows Marked Increase in Kidnappings Following Coup D’état in Yemen

The crimes of kidnapping, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance have increased significantly since the Iranian-backed Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh carried out a coup d’état against Yemen’s legitimate authority and took over the capital Sana’a in September 2014, according to a recent study Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC).

New Study by WJWC Shows Marked Increase in Kidnappings Following Coup D’état in Yemen

Recent study by WJWC on Yemeni media in era of coup and war

A recent study by Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has revealed that official and non-official media outlets in Yemen have become platforms for triggering waves of hostility and sectarianism and other fronts of conflict in which each party scores his field victories at the expense of issues of people.

Recent study by WJWC on Yemeni media in era of coup and war

Three imprisoned journalists released

Prominent Yemeni journalist Yahya Abdulraqeeb al-Jubeihi, jailed and sentenced to death last year by Houthi authorities, was released and pardoned on Sunday, 24 September.

Three imprisoned journalists released

Houthis kidnap pro-journalist in Sanaa

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate said that it had received information from fellow journalists saying that the journalist Abed al-Mahthari, the editor of the Al-Diyar weekly newspaper, had been kidnapped by the Houthis-Saleh militants in Sanaa.

Houthis kidnap pro-journalist in Sanaa
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