Yemeni Journalists Syndicate Condemns Illegal Procedures in Al-Miyahi’s Case and Demands His Release
Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate said on Sunday that it rejects the illegal procedures accompanying the case of Al-Miyahi and demands his immediate release.
The syndicate added: “The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate is following up on the continued kidnapping of writer and journalist Mohammed Al-Miyahi for more than four months and the refusal to transfer his file to the Press and Publications Prosecution as requested by his lawyer, amid fears of fabricating unrealistic charges against the colleague who was kidnapped on September 20, 2024, due to an opinion article.”
It stated: “While renewing the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate’s demand for the speedy release of colleague Al-Miyahi, it rejects all the illegal procedures accompanying his case amid fears of creating a punitive scenario for the colleague who has spent more than 120 days in detention.”
According to the syndicate: “The suffering of colleague Al-Miyahi is increasing with the continued detention of his freedom under arbitrary detention conditions, and the difficult circumstances experienced by his family outside the detention center, which necessitates intensifying efforts to release the colleague, and calling on all organizations concerned with freedom of opinion and expression, foremost among them the International Federation of Journalists and the Arab Journalists Union, to continue efforts to release colleague Al-Miyahi and all kidnapped journalists.”
It said that it is necessary to recall the suffering of four other kidnapped journalists, including three journalists kidnapped by the Houthi group: Wahid Al-Sufi, who has been forcibly disappeared since April 2015, and Nabil Al-Sadawi, who has been kidnapped since 2015 despite a court ruling to release him and be satisfied with the period he spent in prison, and Fahd Al-Arabi, who has been kidnapped since last August. Finally, journalist Nasr Shaker, who has been kidnapped by the STC in Aden since November 2023.
