A Houthi offer to embrace "Brotherhood" members... Activists respond: Release Yemen's journalists from your prisons, and enough is enough
English - Tuesday 29 June 2021 الساعة 11:59 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
In an explicit stance, the leader of the Houthi terrorist militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, said that his group is ready to embrace the Brotherhood’s media leaders who fled from Egypt to Turkey, so that Sanaa will be a new haven for Brotherhood elements that Turkey has narrowed down to improve its relationship with Egypt.
A member of the so-called Supreme Political Office of the Houthis, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, posted on his Twitter page a welcome for the Brotherhood media professionals, Moataz and Muhammad Nasser, who were notified by the Turkish authorities to stop their activities on its soil. And he tweeted: "The two media professionals, Moataz and Muhammad Nasser, are welcome to Sana'a with full freedom in our land, and you will find, God willing, the generosity and protection of the Yemeni people. You have stood with Yemen and suffered from the people and the aggression against them. You are welcome."
He added: "Do not pay attention to the lie that we are fighting the Brotherhood of Yemen (Al-Islah), for they are the ones who kill the people in service of aggression."
The tweet met with outrage and widespread criticism, as tweeters said: Get the journalists of Yemen out of your prisons, and that is enough.
They mocked the phrase "All freedom for them!", expressing their astonishment that there is no freedom for Yemeni media professionals, while fleeing Brotherhood media workers are welcomed, while many Yemeni media workers are languishing in Houthi secret prisons, and unfair trials are directed against them.
They said about the Brotherhood’s media workers, “They are no different from Al-Houthi, for they are mouthpieces funded by Qatar to serve Al-Houthi from the beginning. They never paid attention to the crimes of Iran’s arm against the Yemeni human being. Rather, they were horns recruited to serve Iran’s project, whether in Yemen, Lebanon or Iraq, and it is known about Nasser Matar and his affiliation with channels that incite violence and chaos in Egypt.
They stressed that these elements will not find a place to shelter them except in the areas occupied by the Houthi terrorist groups, because they are at the top of the list of terrorism in the first place.
Throughout the conflict, journalists were targeted and many of them were arbitrarily arrested, assaulted, imprisoned or killed. Already, years have passed since the ten journalists under trial suffered in inhumane conditions, during which they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment.
Al-Houthi had issued the death sentence against 4 journalists, whom they had arrested in 2015, knowing that the fate of these hostages is shrouded in a lot of mystery.
Earlier, Reporters Without Borders said that the number of violations committed against journalists around the world has reached advanced levels, with no less than 387 people, during the current year 2020.
The journalist Hisham Tarmoum, who was released earlier, confirmed that the group’s members always tell them that their leadership warns against journalists and describes them as dangerous, and we always heard from them: “The pen is more dangerous than the sword.” The journalist is the number one enemy for the Houthis, unlike the types of physical and moral torture that they suffered and his companions throughout the period of imprisonment.
The organization's annual report for freedom of the press stated that in 2020, 387 journalists were taken, while the number of hostages reached 54, and four are still missing.
