The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate called on the Yemeni government to urgently pay the journalists’ salaries, who work in state-owned media institutions and face a severe humanitarian crisis, following the suspension of their salaries for three years
About 1000 journalists, who work in public media institutions, television, radio and newspapers, and live in areas controlled by Ansar Allah / Houthis, suffer from a humanitarian and life-threatening crisis that threatens their lives and their families.
As a matter of fact, the Yemeni government has stopped paying their salaries and dues since 2016. It is also noteworthy that the Houthi group had seized the state-owned media institutions after it took control of Sana'a in 2014, the largest of which is Yemen Television, Yemen Radio, Saba News Agency and Al-Thawra newspaper. Moreover, the Yemeni government dismissed the journalists who did not follow their political line, and many of them lost their shelter and homes and lived in inhuman conditions after losing their only source of income.
Since the beginning of the crisis, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate have repeatedly called on the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to assume its responsibility regarding the journalists, who work in these institutions and to respect their social and professional rights. In fact, the government of President Hadi pays the journalists’ salaries, who work in public media in the areas under its control.
The Yemeni journalists are witnessing one of the biggest crises around the world, as in addition to the dangers of work, within the civil and regional war, which resulted in the deaths of more than 30 journalists over the past years and the injury of dozens others, hundreds of journalists have been forced to leave the country as a result of the threats they have suffered. Moreover, the economic crisis resulting from the war led to the cessation and even collapse of the majority of the media institutions, as well as the loss of thousands of jobs in press, in Yemen.
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