Journalists under the Houthi guillotine
English - Saturday 28 May 2022 الساعة 09:01 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Muhammad Yahya:
All calls for international organizations have not found any response to pressure the militia to release the kidnapped, detained and forcibly disappeared journalists in its prisons, or to work on trying the militia before international courts, in a file that still holds many secrets of the total violations that journalists are exposed to in Yemen.
Since its coup against power in September 2014, the criminal Houthi militia has not refrained from committing the most heinous crimes and violations and all forms of killing, torture, displacement and displacement of civilians.
In September 2015, the leader of the pro-Iranian militia, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, was giving a televised speech on the occasion of the first anniversary of their coup against power, in which he incited against journalists and media professionals, saying: "From the media category are those who are more dangerous to this country than traitors and mercenaries and security fighters." .
The chases and kidnappings of media professionals and journalists began on March 26, 2015. At that time, the terrorist militia arrested ten journalists, who were tried on trumped-up charges, coinciding with the launch of Operation Decisive Storm by the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen.
On April 6, 2015, the Houthi militia kidnapped journalist Waheed Al-Sufi, from Al-Tahrir Post in Sana'a, while he was paying an internet bill, and so far no one knows anything about him and no one has been able to find the place of his enforced disappearance.
On May 20 of the same year, two journalists were killed after the criminal militia used them as human shields. The two journalists, Abdullah Qabel and Youssef Al-Eizari, were arrested at a Houthi militia checkpoint, after they discovered a meeting of the Houthis in Dhamar governorate, and they were intentionally placed in a weapons store, which they targeted. Coalition planes, which led to the killing of journalists.
For the past seven years, four journalists, Harith Humaid, Abdul-Khaleq Omran, Tawfiq Al-Mansoori and Akram Al-Walidi, have been subjected to a number of human rights violations by the terrorist Houthi militia, including enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, solitary confinement, beatings, and denial of access. Receiving medical care, after their abduction, disappearance and torture in June 2015, and their death sentence in April 2020, following an unfair trial.
A former detainee at the Central Security Camp in Sana'a confirmed that the four journalists are denied medical treatment, are held in appalling conditions, are denied family visits, and are supplied with drinking water only for half an hour a day, through the tap water in the toilet.
Tawfiq al-Mansoori's brother told Amnesty International that his family is not even allowed to bring him any medicine; Although he learned from the released detainees that his brother's health was a serious concern. Whereas, Tawfiq Al-Mansoori has not been allowed to be transferred to the hospital for treatment since 2020.
And 10 journalists are still kidnapped by the Houthi militia, and they are: (Wahid Al-Sufi, Abdul-Khaleq Omran, Tawfiq Al-Mansoori, Akram Al-Walidi, Harith Hamid, Nabil Al-Sadawi, Muhammad Abdu Al-Salahi, Walid Al-Matari, Muhammad Ali Al-Junaid, and Younis Abdul-Salam), four of whom have been sentenced to death. .
Abductees released from the prisons of the terrorist Houthi militia gave shocking testimonies at an event held by the National Organization of Yemeni Journalists, about the situation of the four kidnapped journalists in Houthi prisons and those sentenced to death, the suffering they go through, depriving them of receiving treatment and exposing them to many diseases, as well as depriving them of food and drink for days. and the physical and psychological abuse they have been subjected to in the militia’s prisons since their arrest in 2015.
