Sana. A photojournalist was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz. A police officer gave this information. “The body of Fawaz al-Wafi, a freelance photojournalist, was found inside his car in the Wadi al-Qadi area and he was stabbed several times”, the official told Xinhua news agency on Wednesday.
The official said that local authorities are investigating the incident and an official statement will be issued later.
The motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained and no one has claimed responsibility for it yet.
A total of 22 journalists have been killed in the war-torn country from 1992 to 2022, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Yemen is ranked 169th in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says there are very few foreign journalists on the ground, while Yemeni journalists are caught between all these forces.
About 20 are claimed to be currently held by the Houthi, militias or al Qaeda, most of them since 2015.
According to the RSF, online access to media outlets has been blocked ever since the Houthis took over much of the country and seized all northern provinces, including the capital Sanaa, in 2014.
In all parts of the country, citizen-journalists are monitored and can be arrested for a single social media post.
—AnyTV News
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