Dec 13, 2017

Yemen's Huthi rebels have freed the journalists and staff of Yemen Today, the TV channel of the country's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the rebel-run Saba news agency said Wednesday.

A photo released by Saba showed 37 members of the Yemen Today crew upon their release.

An official in Saleh's General Peoples' Congress party and fellow Yemeni journalists said to AFP, however, that all 41 journalists and associated staff -- taken captive earlier this month -- had been released.

The Iran-allied Huthi rebels overran the television's Sanaa offices on December 2 as their three-year alliance with Saleh's forces unravelled, attacking it with rocket-propelled grenades and wounding three guards.

Rebel information minister Ahmed Hamed moved to open a new page with pro-Saleh