Women Journalists Without Chains

56 Violations against Journalists Registered by WJWC in First Quarter of 2018

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has reported 56 violations against journalists, including three deaths, during the first quarter of 2018.

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).

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.

Press Statements

WJWC condemns targeting of headquarters of Al-Shamou’a & Akhbar Al-Youm Newspaper Foundation (Press Releases) 12 November 2017
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns in the strongest terms the aggressive action against the headquarters of Al-Shamoua & Akhbar Al-Youm Newspaper...
WJWC condemns abduction of Karman, Omar and Kahla, demanding immediate release of all abductees (Press Releases) 16 August 2017
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) strongly condemns abduction and enforced disappearance of Mohammed Abdel Salam Karman, Omar Yassin Abdel Aziz and Abdel Rahman...
WJWC congratulates Afrah Nasser on being among 2017 International Press Freedom Winners (Press Releases) 19 July 2017
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has congratulated journalist Afrah Nasser on 2017 International Press Freedom Prize.

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Yemeni journalist dies just days after release by Houthis

11 June 2018

RSF- Deploring Yemeni journalist Anwar al Rakan’s death as a result of mistreatment while held for about a year by Yemen’s Houthis, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges all of Yemen’s belligerents to stop trying to restrict news coverage and to free all imprisoned journalists.

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Participants in WJWC’s forum call for release of all journalists detained in militia prisons

23 April 2017

In a forum entitled “Under Repression… the State of Press Freedoms in Yemen”, participants have stressed the need to release journalists being held captive in prisons of Saleh-Houthi militias.