Kamal al-Shawish is a Yemeni human rights activist who was kidnapped by the Houthi militia in August 2018 in the city of Hodeidah.
Shawish is a researcher for Mwatana Organization for Human Rights in Hodeidah, where he was reporting on human rights violations against civilians.
Mwatana released a statement that Shawish had been detained on Sanaa Street when "two-armed men blindfolded Al Shawish and pulled him towards a gold-color car taking him to an unknown location".[1] Middle East Monitor noted that Mwatana had been particularly targeted, and Executive Director Abdulrasheed Al-Faqih and Chairperson Radhya Al-Mutawakel had both been temporarily detained in June 2018.[2]
Amnesty International's Lynn Maalouf commented that “The worrying abduction of Kamal al-Shawish seems to be part of a sinister pattern of harassment and repression of human rights work in Yemen, committed by all sides to the conflict”.[3] The Gulf Center for Human Rights also called on the Houthi militia to release al-Shawish.[4]
Kamal was repeatedly arrested, as the Houthis arrested him earlier, along with 3 of his colleagues, from the yard of the Media Department at Hodeidah University, while they were producing a humanitarian TV program in Hodeidah. The International Federation of Journalists condemned their arrest by the Houthis in March 2017.[5]
AlShawish is active in publishing and press production for the media, and in early February 2015 he received a threat of physical liquidation through two phone calls after a report was published revealing corruption cases in a government office in Raymah Governorate. [6][6]
References edit
- ^ "Ansar Allah (Houthis) must immediately release Kamal Al Shawish our Field Research Assistant in Al-Hudaydah | Mwatana for Human Rights". mwatana.org. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Amnesty calls for Houthis to release rights activist in Yemen". Middle East Monitor. 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Yemen: Human rights activist abducted by the Huthi armed group must be released". www.amnesty.org. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Gulf Centre for Human Rights". Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "صحيفة أخبار اليوم - الإتحاد الدولي للصحفيين يدين اختطاف المليشيات صحفيين بالحديدة". akhbaralyom.net. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "الـــزمــيـــل كــمـــال الــشـــاوش يــتـلـقى تـهـديـد بـالـتـصـفـية الـجـسـديـة". huna-aden.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
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Kamal was repeatedly arrested, as the Houthis arrested him earlier, along with 3 of his colleagues, from the yard of the Media Department at Hodeidah University, while they were producing a humanitarian TV program in Hodeidah. The International Federation of Journalists condemned their arrest by the Houthis in March 2017.