Yemeni authorities arrest journalist Awad Kashmeem in Hadramout - Committee to Protect Journalists

Yemeni authorities arrest journalist Awad Kashmeem in Hadramout - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., April 18, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns Wednesday’s arrest of Yemeni journalist Awad Kashmeem, head of the Freedoms Committee at the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate’s Hadramout branch, by local authorities in the country’s eastern Hadramout governorate. “We are deeply concerned about the arrest of Awad Kashmeem in Yemen. His latest detention is a stark reminder of the alarming decline in press freedom…