Monitoring Program

The Program of Monitoring run by Freedom Foundation designed to monitor  violations against media, receive reports and documents and monitoring media freedom and freedom of expression. This program is concern on monitoring and documenting all violations against journalists, media, opinion writers and photojournalists whether they were staff or freelancers or contributors as well as against media institutions by threat or assault or arbitrary arrest, torture or enforced disappearance or deprivation of practicing the profession or being prevented from traveling or being a matter of incitement or otherwise.

 Objectives of the Monitoring Program:

1- Monitoring violations against media freedom and freedom of expression in Yemen.

2-Encouraging journalists and media to report violations that they were faced it and revealed it.

3-Monitoring laws and decisions that limit the freedoms of press, media and expression.

4-Monitoring incitement or threat or violations in all forms against journalists, media and press institutions.  

5-Reporting the facts of violations occurring during the practice of the rights guaranteed by legislation, local and international laws.

6- Working on registering and organizing information in a systematic manner, and establishing an easy system and data base to collect the required documents and identifying the facts to facilitate its dissemination and refer to it and take advantage of it from any place in the world.

7- Working on documenting and monitoring trials against journalists and media who have been exposed to violations of their rights, and all matters that related to the practice of rights and media freedoms in Yemen.

Means and mechanisms of monitoring process:

1-Receiving reporting through our Hotline from those who had been abused or from their relatives and friends.

2-Following-up and monitoring violations through what is published in various media or in social media website like (Facebook), (Twitter) and others.

3-Constant contact with those who were exposed to such violations or with their relatives and their families to learn more about their cases and follow up on the repercussions of the violation.

4- Working on search operation and fact-finding about the violations and its analysis, and drafting periodical reports on them.

 Hotline Project:  

The program of Monitoring is including the hotline project, which was launched by the Freedom Foundation in April 5, 2012, to receive reports of violations against media freedom an freedom of expression and against all people working in the field of media as well as media organizations who were exposed to any kind of violation and rights abuse. The hotline phone number is (737911911) and (715552666), in addition to landline phone number (01539090)or via mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  The hotline operates to receive calls throughout the 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

 Goals of the hotline service:

1-It is launched to be the voice for those who are subjected to abuse and their voice will heard on high local and international level since the first moment of the violation occurrence against them.

2-To make the press and media freedom always in the high light and attention of the government and the soceity.

3-To besieging and controlling violators of media freedoms and rights.

4- To contributing in making the voice heard for those who are exposed to violations from journalists to the concerned authorities as soon as possible in order to move quickly to resolve their issues and contain it before it gets worse, and to stop and prevent its recurrence.