SANAA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian satellite provider Nilesat on Wednesday stopped Yemen's Houthi rebel channel al-Masirah TV from the satellite stream, Houthi spokesman said in a statement.
"The Nilesat company suspended al-Masirah transmission on Wednesday morning," said Mohammed Abdulsalam, the chairman of al-Masirah network board and the head of Houthi representatives to the upcoming UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden.
"The removal of al-Masirah TV from the satellite stream was a result of Saudi-U.S.-France pressures on Nilesat," he said.
"The move proves the channel's effective role in revealing the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition's war crimes against the Yemeni people," he was quoted as saying by Houthi-controlled Saba news agency.
The channel is the main Arabic-language mouthpiece of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Its main offices are located in Yemen's capital Sanaa and Lebanon's capital Beirut.
There was no comment yet from Nilesat.
Saudi Arabia is leading an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after the Houthi rebels forced him into exile and seized much of the country's north, including the capital Sanaa.
The four-year-long war has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, displaced 3 million others and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, left Sanaa on Saturday after a visit, during which the rebels pledged to attend the upcoming peace talks in Sweden.
