A human rights symposium, held today, Sunday, in the city of Taiz, called on the Yemeni government and its allies to pursue the leaders of the Houthi terrorist militia involved in the assassination of the journalist Rasha Al -Harazi.
The colleagues of Rasha Al -Harazi and journalist Mahmoud Al -Atami held in partnership with the Media Department at the Faculty of Arts at Taiz University, a human rights symposium entitled “Rasha Al -Harazi . ..
the truth does not die”, on the first anniversary of the assassination of the first journalist in Yemen and the injury of her husband Mahmoud Al -Ati with an explosive device last year.
The symposium presented 3 research papers to the head of the media department at Taiz University, Dr.
Mansour Al -Qudsi, the journalist Ashraf Al -Masht and the human rights activist Manal Al -Shaibani, discussed the legal paths of the case internationally and the crime was described as terrorist act and pressure mechanisms to complete the investigations.
The symposium dealt with information and evidence before and after the crime, including the dark journalist to a series of threats over the phone and through messages in the WhatsApp and Facebook applications sent to him by Houthi leaders in Hodeidah warning him and asking him to stop his work or that his life and the life of his family will be a revenge goal.
One of the symposium papers accused high -ranking Houthi leaders, headed by the official of the Houthi security and intelligence service in Hodeidah Abu Alaa Al -Amisi and the head of the military intelligence in the governorate, Riyad Baladi, of being involved in the crime after participating in collecting personal information about the dark journalist, including his residence, his movements, type and number of his car.
The paper said that Al -Houthi was not satisfied with pursuing Al -Ati, but rather to kidnap his colleagues and brother, and after committing the crime he went to liquidate the father of the journalist Rasha Al -Harazi in a crime that took place away from view in the city of Al -Hawban, east of Taiz.
The symposium concluded that the assassination of journalist Rasha Al -Harzi and the targeting of journalist Mahmoud Al -Atami is an important point in the history of terrorist targeting the press in Yemen and the Arab world.
The symposium called on the Yemeni government and its allies to quickly classify the Houthi leaders, including the security, with the lists of terrorism and to inflict the harshest sanctions against them and prosecute them judicially, militarily and security.
It also recommended the adoption of the case of journalist Rasha Al -Harazi as an international public opinion issue and considered one of the evidence to pursue the leaders of the Houthi terrorist militias and those like it from extremist groups, according to international humanitarian law.
The symposium urged the public prosecutor in Yemen to refer the case of journalist Rasha Al -Harazi to the criminal prosecution specialized in combating terrorism, provided that the security services continue to collect inferences and refer any accused who are controlled by the judiciary.
A terrorist bombing by an explosive device planted in the car of the journalist Mahmoud Al -Atami killed his wife, journalist Rasha Al -Harazi and her fetus on November 9, 2021 in the city of Aden, southern Yemen.
The Al -Atami journalist, who survived the assassination, confirmed the involvement of the Houthi militia in the bombing of his car, stressing that the militias were looking for information about him as his residence, type and number of his car days before the bombing occurred..
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