The Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate announced yesterday that three journalists detained by the Houthi group in the capital Sanaa have been subjected to torture, Anadolu reported. The rights group said it had “received a report from the families of journalists Abdel-Khaleq Omran, Tawfiq Al-Mansoori, and Harith Hamid, who have been detained since 2015 in Sanaa, stating that they had been beaten, abused and tortured in prison.” It condemned “this brutal repression and arbitrary methods”, saying it held the Houthis responsible for “the systematic crime against fellow detainees.” It also expressed “strong disapproval of the group’s insistence on torturing journalists who are facing an unjust death sentences and have been living in very harsh and illegal detention conditions for nearly seven years.” Calling for … Continue reading Houthis tortured 3 journalists in Yemen, rights group says