United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
The four journalists detained since 2015 by the Houthis and sentenced to death last April for “spying”, contributed, from Sanaa, to a network of media and pages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp linked to the Islah party, the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which holds power in government-controlled areas recognized by the international community
A court proceeding set up by the Houthis in Sanaa, the capital, handed down the sentence on 11 April against the four journalists, according to the journalists’ lawyer, Abdel Majeed Farea Sabra; Abdullah al-Mansouri, Tawfiq al-Mansouri’s brother; and Nabil Alosaidi, Yemeni Journalists Syndicate co-chair, who communicated with CPJ via messaging app. The Houthis handed down the sentence after detaining the journalists for nearly five years, according to CPJ reporting
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