Kamal al-Shawish ( Arabic: كمال الشويش) 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]
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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.
Kamal al-Shawish ( Arabic: كمال الشويش) 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]
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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.