[04/05/2020 05:59]
RIYADH-SABA
Yemen's Information Minister said press freedom under Houthis in north and northwestern Yemen is seeing its worst times in history.
In tweets on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, Muammar al-Eryani said Yemen has not seen what amounts to war crimes against press freedom but in the five years of Houthi usurped reign."
He said, "on the World Press Freedom Day, we remember dozens of journalists who were martyred, rounded up to jails, subjected to torture, brought to illegal trials and sentenced to death at the hands of Houthis."
"Hundreds of journalists living outside the militia's control and outside Yemen altogether are still even facing death threats," he said adding that the relatives of such journalists in Yemen face the militia 's other ways of reprisal.
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