{"id":44213,"date":"2020-11-04T02:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44213"},"modified":"2020-11-04T02:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:23:22","slug":"egypt-to-suspend-education-in-event-of-covid-19-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44213","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to suspend education in event of COVID-19 second wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"100\">\n<p>\nAL-MUKALLA:\u00a0Yemen\u2019s Journalists Syndicate has condemned a death threat made against a veteran journalist based in Houthi-held Sanaa, calling upon the Iran-backed group to protect him and to find those behind the threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe syndicate said the threat against Abdul Bari Taher must be investigated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Houthi group, the de facto authority in Sanaa, holds full responsibility for these actions, and should protect him, investigate this crime and punish the perpetrators.\u201d Taher was targeted because of his \u201cbrave stands and opinions,\u201d the syndicate added.<\/p>\n<p>\nTaher, who was born in the western province of Hodeidah in 1941, was a founding member of the syndicate in the 1970s and has been in charge of several government and private newspapers during the last five decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is currently a columnist for local and regional newspapers. In Oct. 2018, the Houthis briefly held him along with 19 other journalists for participating in an \u201cunauthorized\u201d event in Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>\nYemeni politicians and activists demanded the Houthis quickly identify the people who threatened to kill Taher and also those who have killed several popular politicians in Sanaa in the last five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWhoever threatens Abdul Bari Taher is in fact threatening every free Yemeni who does not belong to the Houthi group,\u201d Mustapha Noman, a former minister and diplomat, tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\nHundreds of Yemeni journalists, activists and opposition figures have been forced to flee to government-controlled areas or seek exile due to the group\u2019s harsh crackdown in the last six years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe group has put them on trial in absentia, confiscated their houses and froze their bank accounts even after they had left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nOutspoken journalists and writers who remain in Sanaa are harassed by the Houthis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIn April the Houthis abducted Khaled Al-Ruwaishan, a former Yemeni culture minister and an outspoken writer, who criticized the group\u2019s handling of flash floods that hit Sanaa and other areas in northern Yemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThat same month a Houthi-run court sentenced four journalists to death after convicting them of contacting the group\u2019s enemies. The four journalists were among a group of 10 journalists who were abducted from a hotel in Sanaa in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a report issued on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists \u2014 Nov. 2 \u2014 the syndicate said that 44 Yemeni journalists had been killed and hundreds of others had been detained since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\nYemen\u2019s Information Minister Muammar Al-Aryani urged international rights groups to pressure the Houthis to cease their harassment of journalists and free those being held in their prisons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe remember with deep pain our fellow journalists in Houthi prisons, who were sentenced to death for their political opinions. The Houthis refused to release in (the latest) prisoner swap deal (so) as to exploit their and their families\u2019 suffering for political pressure and blackmail,\u201d the minister tweeted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL-MUKALLA:\u00a0Yemen\u2019s Journalists Syndicate has condemned a death threat made against a veteran journalist based in Houthi-held Sanaa, calling upon the Iran-backed group to protect him and to find those behind the threat.\u00a0 The syndicate said the threat against Abdul Bari Taher must be investigated.\u00a0 \u201cThe Houthi group, the de facto authority in Sanaa, holds full&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}