32 local organizations concerned with freedom of opinion and expression and human rights in Yemen called on the international community to intensify its efforts to hold perpetrators of violations against journalists accountable and not to leave them with impunity, as well as to establish the foundations of legal accountability to ensure that journalists are able to freely practice their work in conjunction with the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes committed against journalists, which the world celebrates on this day every year.
The statement added that the continued impunity of criminals during the past seven years led to the commission of more brutal crimes against the press and journalists, which escalated the severity of illegal practices against journalists and their imprisonment, and death sentences were issued against four journalists, some of whom were killed in horrific ways that Yemen had not witnessed before. Besides arrests and torture to death.
The statement concluded the continuation of the efforts of the signatory organizations to contribute to creating the free reality that the press and journalists deserve in Yemen, and to drop the death sentences against 4 journalists, namely, “Abdul Khaleq Omran, Akram Al-Walidi, Harith Hamid, and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri.”
(The organizations that signed the statement are in the photo attached to this post.)
