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The Houthis must release journalist Youness Abdelsalam immediately and stop abducting and threatening members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Wednesday.
Houthi forces detained Abdelsalam in the capital Sanaa in central Yemen on August 4 and have been holding him since at the Security and Intelligence Agency in the city, according to his brother, Sultan Abdelsalam and the journalist’s lawyer, Abdel Majeed Farea Sabra, who both spoke to CPJ via messaging app.
Sabra and Abdelsalam’s brother said that the journalist has not been formally charged.
Abdelsalam suffers from several health issues and his family has only been able to visit him once in prison since his arrest, the journalist’s brother told CPJ.
The Houthis are holding at least four other journalists, all of whom face a death sentence, and have assaulted, imprisoned, and forced out journalists from areas under the group’s control over the last several years, as CPJ has documented.
“The Houthis’ campaign against journalists knows no bounds, and now more than ever the international community needs to take action,” CPJ Senior Middle East and North Africa Researcher Justin Shilad said.