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).

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.

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.

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.

Journalist Yahya Abdulraqeeb al-Jubeihi is suffering from serious health problems after being denied access to proper medical care in prison.

Istanbul-based Belqees TV’s reporter has been subjected to severe assault by unknown gunmen in Marib province, east of Yemen.

Abdul Rahim Mohsen, a journalist, was abducted by the Houthi militia from al-Raheda, a town east of Taiz province, on Tuesday afternoon.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) strongly condemns abduction and enforced disappearance of Mohammed Abdel Salam Karman, Omar Yassin Abdel Aziz and Abdel Rahman Kahla by security forces loyal to Houthi-Saleh militia.

The president of Yemeni students’ union Radwan Masoud was released on Saturday after nearly a year of being kidnapped for the second time in Yemen’s militia-held capital, Sana’a.

Journalist Ghamdan Abu Asba was attacked yesterday by unknown gunmen on board a minibus without a plate in the militia-held capital Sana'a.

The journalist Mohammed Abdulmalik al-Selwi was freed today after being held captive for 10 months by the Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted President Ali Saleh.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) voices deep concern after ten Yemeni journalists abducted by the Houthi militia were transferred to the Specialized Criminal Court in Yemen’s militia-held capital Sana’a on Wednesday in preparation for their trial.