At around 22:50 Sana'a time, the entire country of #Yemen went dark. Saudi bombardment of Hodeidah had left 4 children killed, up to 20 injured and the headquarters of YemenNet destroyed.
YemenNet supplies the entire country of 29 million people with internet access.
YemenNet supplies the entire country of 29 million people with internet access.
Six hours later, and #Yemen is still without internet access, and thus incapable of communicating with the world. For the Yemenis, the internet is a vital and important tool to communicate the crimes committed against its people to the outside world.
A few hours ago, we heard from credible sources that Sana'a, Yemen's capital, was under heavy bombardment with multiple casualties, and that a detention centre in Yemen's northern province of Saadah had been targeted. Deliberately, as always.
As Yemen is left without access to the internet, isolated digitally as well as physically, we urge everyone near and far to use the hashtag #YemenBlackout, and let people know what is currently happening in Yemen. These are some of the worst escalations in recent weeks.
Desperate Yemeni families within the diaspora is unable to reach relatives back home, worried what might have occured. And nobody knows. The Saudi-American aggression bombed & maimed children, and then destroyed Yemen's internet infrastructre - so that news wouldn't come out.
The absence of any major media coverage of what is going on in #Yemen RIGHT NOW is equally abhorrent and egregious. It is critical that Yemeni civilians are guaranteed free access to the internet as any world citizen, and that its right to free speech are protected.
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