Houthis to prosecute 10 hunger striking journalists

The Houthis are to prosecute ten Yemeni hunger striking journalists in Sanaa, the Anadolu Agency reported.

Fatimah Mohamed, the wife of one of the journalist Salah Al-Qaedi, said: “The Houthis did not allow us to visit my husband in prison,” adding that she has had no information about him for a month.

The Houthis had threatened her husband and the other journalists in an effort to end their hunger strike, she said. “They [Houthis] warned they would accuse them [the journalists] of inciting sedition.”

The journalists were abducted from Sanaa on 9 June last year, 18 days into their hunger strike, and were physically and psychologically tortured, Anadolu said in a report. They started their hunger strike in protest against their unjust imprisonment and the mistreatment they suffered at the hands of the Houthis.

The families called on the international community, the UN envoy to Yemen and the Yemeni government’s delegation, which is participating in the Kuwait peace talks, to save the missing journalists.