Al-Masirah ( ar, المسيرة ''al-Masirah'', which means "The Journey") is a
Yemen
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i TV channel which was founded and is owned by the
Ansarullah movement (Houthis).
The TV channel is headquartered in
Beirut
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,
Lebanon
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.
History
The President of the board of Al-Masirah is Mohammed Abdulsalam who is also Houthis official spokesman and their chief negotiator.
Al-Masirah was founded by the
Ansarullah movement (Houthis) in January 2012 in
Beirut
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, Lebanon and is located next to
Hezbollah’s
Al Manar
Al-Manar ( ar, المنار, ''al-Manār'', lit='' The Lighthouse'') is a Lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the political party Hezbollah, TV with backup studios at Hezbollah headquarters.
On 8 October 2020,
Twitter
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suspended the account of Al-Masirah.
Channel frequency during Saudi-led coalition on Yemen
On 10 May 2015, Al-Masirah, along with other anti-Saudi channels, were closed on Nile Sat & Euro Sat several times due to Saudi pressure on the satellite companies, which made Al-Masirah broadcast its signal instead on the Russian satellite Express AM 44. After several months of being banned on Nile Sat, broadcast is now online on Nile Sat.
Killed journalists and media workers
After the
Houthi takeover in Yemen
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known as the September 21 Revolution (by supporters), or 2014–15 coup d'état (by opponents), was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters t ...
, Al-Masirah lost a number of employees due to conflict.
* On 4 January 2015 Al-Masirah Journalist Khaled al-Washli was killed by an exploding bomb as he covered attempts to diffuse it.
* On 17 September 2015 Bilal Sharaf al-Deen was covering an airstrike, when he was killed by a following airstrike.
* On 21 January 2016, the 17-year-old TV cameraman Hashem al-Hamran was mortally injured by an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the city of Dahian in
Saada Governorate
Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, Ṣaʿdah) is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada. It is the epicentre of Zaydism , when he was filming bombing raids for al-Masirah. He died from his wounds on 22 January 2016.
The YJS, the IFJ and Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, condemned the killing of Hashem Al Hamran.
U.S. Seizure of Online Sites
On June 22, 2021, United States law enforcement agencies seized a number of domains associated with Al-Masirah.
The main website is now back online at almasirah.com.
See also
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Television in Yemen
Local television is the most significant media platform in Yemen. Given the low literacy rate in the country, television is the main source of news for Yemenis. There are six free-to-air channels currently headquartered in Yemen, of which four are ...
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Ansarullah movement (Houthis)
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List of journalists killed in Yemen
References
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Arab mass media
Television in Yemen
Houthis
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television stations in Yemen
Conservative media