{"id":45796,"date":"2025-09-29T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/45796\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:34:09","slug":"yemeni-journalist-majed-zayed-disappears-amid-houthi-arrest-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/45796\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni journalist Majed Zayed disappears amid Houthi arrest campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C., September 29, 2025\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of Yemeni freelance journalist Majed Zayed<\/a>, who press freedom<\/a> and human rights<\/a> groups say was abducted by Houthi authorities on September 23 amid a wave of detentions.<\/p>\n

Zayed, a contributor to independent Yemen-based media outlets Nafzet Al-Yemen<\/a>, Almawqea Post<\/a>, and Mda Press<\/a>, was abducted<\/a> Tuesday night while leaving a medical center<\/a> in the capital, Sanaa. His whereabouts remain unknown. The abduction, which CPJ could not independently confirm, took place two days after he posted a patriotic song celebrating the Yemeni flag ahead of September 26, the anniversary of the founding of the republic, which Houthi authorities do not recognise<\/a> as a national day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe abduction of Majed Zayed is the latest example of how the Houthi rebel group exploits politicized moments to intensify their crackdown on press freedom,\u201d said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. \u201cThe Houthis must disclose Zayed\u2019s whereabouts, release him, and end their attacks on journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The abduction comes amid a broader Houthi crackdown<\/a> ahead of the September 26 anniversary. On Tuesday, the Houthi-controlled Ministry of Interior issued<\/a> a warning about hostile plots aimed at destabilizing the country and inciting discord.<\/p>\n

At the same time last year, the group launched a wave of detentions targeting aid workers and critics of their rule, including Yemeni journalist Mohamed Al-Miyahi<\/a>, who remains<\/a> in jail.<\/p>\n

Yemen has long been one of the world\u2019s most dangerous countries for journalists, where they face killings<\/a> by multiple actors<\/a> and systematic repression<\/a> from warring parties, including arbitrary detention<\/a>, enforced disappearances<\/a>, blocking<\/a> access to media outlets, and unfair trials occur with near-total impunity.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C., September 29, 2025\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of Yemeni freelance journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36155,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-45796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-detained","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}