AL-MUKALLA: Yemen’s Journalists Syndicate has condemned a death threat made against a veteran journalist based in Houthi-held Sanaa, calling upon the Iran-backed group to protect him and to find those behind the threat. In Oct. 2018, the Houthis briefly held him along with 19 other journalists for participating in an “unauthorized” event in Sanaa. Outspoken journalists and writers who remain in Sanaa are harassed by the Houthis. The four journalists were among a group of 10 journalists who were abducted from a hotel in Sanaa in 2015. “We remember with deep pain our fellow journalists in Houthi prisons, who were sentenced to death for their political opinions.

Source: Ethiopian News November 03, 2020 23:26 UTC