Yousuf Ajlan
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Yousuf Ajlan is a Yemeni journalist who was seized from his home, on October 16 2016, and who his friends believe is being held in secret extrajudicial detention.[1][2][3] Militia members seized him, thought to be associated with the Houthi factions.
Roy Greenslade, reporting for The Guardian, wrote that Ajlan had a past history of covering controversial topics, like Yemeni individuals held in Guantanamo, and Yemen's detention of American citizen Sharif Mobley, but that he had retired from journalism after a previous capture, in March 2015.[1][2][3] Greenslade noted Ajlan was the sixteenth journalist to be captured in 2016.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roy Greenslade (2016-11-18). "Fears grow for the 16th journalist abducted in Yemen this year: Former website editor was taken from his home a month ago by Houthi militia". The Guardian (UK). https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/18/fears-grow-for-the-16th-journalist-abducted-in-yemen-this-year. Retrieved 2017-06-25. "He is thought to be held by representatives of the Houthi, the pro-Iranian Shia-led movement that controls most of northern Yemen and is engaged in a bitter struggle with pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lucia Calderón Portugal (2016-11-19). "Periodista lleva un mes secuestrado [Journalist kidnapped for one month]" (in Portugese). Clases de Periodismo (Portugal). http://www.clasesdeperiodismo.com/2016/11/19/yemen-periodista-lleva-un-mes-secuestrado/. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Press release on the abduction of colleague Yousuf Ajlan". Almasdar online. 2016-11-14. http://www.almasdaronline.com/article/print/86351. Retrieved 2017-06-25. "The Houthi militias kidnapped on 15 of last October our fellow journalist Yousuf Ajlan from outside his house in the capital Sana'a."
