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The doctor paying a high price for tweeting from a war zone

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    29 September 2015
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"Armed Houthi men are in my house." That's the last tweet, external posted by Abdulkader Alguneid, a 66-year-old physician who took to social media because he felt nobody was telling the story of the war in Yemen.

Alguneid hasn't been heard from for more than a month. But as BBC Trending reports, his name has been trending as Yemenis try and tell the world about him.

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