UAE-funded militias threaten journalists in Aden with abuse

ADEN, Sept. 07 (YPA) – UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia threatened on Wednesday with targeting and liquidating journalists and media activists on social media in Aden city, south of Yemen and the rest of the southern provinces.

Emirati intelligence affiliated with the STC militia demanded monitoring and documenting tweets, publications and audio spaces that incite against the STC on social networking sites, in a move described as terrorism to muzzle freedom of expression.

The STC in Aden prevented media professionals and journalists from appearing in television media interventions on local and Arab satellite channels, threatening them with revenge.

In early November last year, a number of media professionals were assassinated during in Aden, most notably the media, Rasha Al-Harazi, who was killed by an explosive device exploded in her husband’s car.

In mid-June, a car of the Japanese Agency’s correspondent, Saber Al-Haidari, was targeted with an explosive device, killing him with two of his companions in front of the Mansoura Electricity Gate in Aden.

Earlier this week, the media advisor to the former Minister of Transport affiliated with the Islah Party in the coalition-backed government, Ahmed Maher, appeared in a video published by the “STC” militia, bearing signs of torture a month after his kidnapping, on charges of involvement in the assassination of the leader Thabet Jawas in Aden.

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