03 Nov 09 | Index Index, minipost, News and features
Munir Al Mawari was sentenced on 31 October to two years in prison and given a lifelong ban on practising journalism for libelling President Ali Abdallah Saleh. In the same case, editor Samir Jubran received a suspended one-year prison sentence and a ban on practising journalism for a year. Both men work for the independent weekly newspaper Al Madar. Al Mawari had written an article in Al Madar criticising the conduct of the war against Shiite rebels in the north of the country. (RSF)
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28 May 09 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
The Yemeni Minister of information has denied that the government had suspended any newspapers, saying that some willingly disappeared and others for troubles with printers. In recent months several newspapers have been shut down and there have been numerous attempts on journalists lives. Read more here
20 May 09 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the censorship crisis in Yemen has worsened. Read more here
03 Dec 08 | Middle East and North Africa
Eleven people were injured, two of them police, during a protest in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa last Thursday.
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