The Saudi-led coalition kills many Yemeni journalists over reporting this!
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Yemeni Media Union has , recently, said that about 243 media personnel were killed and 22 media personnel others were wounded by the coalition’s air strikes. The coalition also targeted 30 radio and television stations, and about 21 media establishments were totally or partially destroyed.
Fayez Al-Shumairi, who worked as a director in the Yemeni satellite channel was killed by a Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, airstrike on the capital Sana’a, at dawn on Saturday. The Ministry of Information, the Yemeni General Organization for Radio and Television and the Yemen Satellite TV, mourned Fayez Dabwan killing, who contributed to the many programs in the Yemeni satellite channel, pointing to the noble character and dedication in performing the tasks entrusted to him.
The Ministry of Information and its affiliated institutions called the international and humanitarian organizations to work for protecting freedom of opinion and expression, calling the international community to take serious action to stop these criminal acts, which target journalists. The perpetrators of these crimes has to receive their deterrent punishment.
Many journalists in the Yemeni channel were killed by previous raids in a series of the coalition’s crimes. The latest of which was targeting of the head of the Yemeni Media Union, Abdullah Al-Sabri and resulted in killing two of his children and his mother.
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, Yemeni Media Union said in a statement, the coalition violations against media personnel have reached to covering up what is happening in Yemen, pointing out that the coalition prevented 143 international media personnel from entering Yemen over the past period by the closure of Sanaa International Airport, preventing the travel of dozens of media personnel from and to Yemen.
In addition, thousands of Yemeni media personnel are living in a difficult economic situation due to closing dozens of newspapers and media outlets and displacing most of them by the coalition.
The Yemeni Media Union called for the inclusion of all the sites of governmental and private media institutions within the United Nations protected areas, the opening of Sanaa airport and the disbursement of salaries.
In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
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