Al-Qaeda in Yemen executes journalist

The International Federation of Journalists condemned the execution by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in Yemen of journalist Mohammed Al-Maqri, who has been missing since October 2015.

The IFJ demanded that the perpetrators of this heinous crime be held accountable, while the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate renewed its demand for the Houthi militia to release the rest of the kidnapped journalists.

The Union condemned the heinous crime that claimed the life of journalist Al-Maqri, along with 11 others on the same charge.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate renewed its demand for the Houthi militia to release all journalists kidnapped in its prisons.

The union said in a statement: "Journalist Mohammed Al-Mayahy has been kidnapped by the Houthi group in Sana'a since September 21 in mysterious and arbitrary detention conditions due to his opinions."

The union renewed its condemnation of keeping the two colleagues in detention arbitrarily and in violation of the law and in difficult and unhealthy detention conditions, calling for their immediate release and the release of all detainees.

The union recalled the case of the forcibly disappeared Wahid al-Sufi, who has been missing since April 2015 by the Houthis, and the employee of the Yemeni news agency Saba, Nabil al-Saydawi, whom the group refused to release despite the court ruling that the period he had spent in prison should be sufficient.

The union called on the Houthis to stop their policy of persecuting and oppressing journalists and opinion-makers, and to release all those kidnapped.