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Almasirah

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Launched
  
2012

Headquarters
  
Sana'a, Yemen

Nilesat 102
  
11637 V - 27500 - 5/6

Language
  
Arabic

Website
  
almasirah.net

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Owned by
  
Ansarullah movement (Houthis)

Al Masirah (Arabic: المسيرة‎‎ al-Masirah which means The Journey) is a Yemeni TV channel which is found and owned by Ansarullah movement (Houthis).

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Channel frequency during Saudi-led collation on Yemen

On 10 May 2015, Al Masirah channel along with other anti-Saudi channels were closed on Nile Sat & Euro Sat several times due to a Saudi pressure on the satellite companies, which made Al Masirah broadcast its signal again but on Russian satellite Express AM 44., after several months of banning in Nile Sat, broadcast is now online in Nile Sat.

Killed journalists and media workers

After Houthi takeover in Yemen, Al Masirah lost 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 (Saada Governorate), 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.

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    Almasirah Wikipedia
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