Participants in the Yemeni-Yemeni Consultations being held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, called on the United Nations and its committees concerned with prisoner exchange operations to include the four journalists abducted by the Houthi militia years ago in any upcoming prisoner exchange deal.

This came in a statement issued by the participants in the media axis in the Consultations called by the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, from the Consultations venue in Riyadh.

And the statement called on the United Nations and its committees concerned with prisoner exchange operations to include the four journalists abducted by the Houthi terrorist militia (Abdul-Khaleq Omran, Tawfiq al-Mansoori, Harith Hamid, Akram al-Walidi), in any upcoming prisoner exchange deal - despite the lack of justice in such deals - and that no prisoner exchange deal passes without journalists being at the forefront of its lists.

And the statement called on the government to "assume its responsibilities towards the abducted journalists and work by all means and methods to release them from the prisons of the racist Houthi militia and take care of their families as the government's least duty towards their great national sacrifice and struggle."

And the statement called on international organizations concerned with human rights to "transform the issue of the abducted journalists into a case of international public opinion and to exert maximum pressure on the bloody Houthi militia to release them quickly."

The statement held the Houthi militia "full moral and legal responsibility for the continued abducting and torture of journalists," stressing that "such crimes will not be subject to a statute of limitations and the perpetrators will be held accountable, whether the time is long or short."

And the statement said: "For the seventh year in a row, the terrorist Houthi militia continues to abduct our fellow journalists and forcibly hide them inside their dark basements in the occupied capital, Sana'a, where the various forms of psychological and physical torture are practiced against them, and even persisted in issuing execution orders against them in an exaggerated malicious manner. Rather than, this matter has exacerbated the health and psychological condition of the tormented colleagues, as well as exposing them to direct danger that may end their lives because of their free speech.”

And the Houthi militia had abducted the four journalists, along with five other journalists, while performing their work in a hotel in the capital, Sanaa, at the end of 2015. And in 2020, five of them were released in a prisoner exchange deal that took place between the Houthis and government forces.

And in April of the year 2020, a Houthi court in Sanaa issued a death warrant against colleague Omran and three others, "Tawfiq al-Mansoori, Akram al-Walidi and Harith Hamid."

And the Houthi militia's verdict against the journalists abducted in its prisons drew widespread condemnation at the local and international levels, and the decision was considered a continuation of the series of abuse and crimes committed against journalists detained for more than five years.