Comments on: Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail? http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again/ for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Weekly News Update 9 May 2013 | Yemen Digest http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again/#comment-25539 Weekly News Update 9 May 2013 | Yemen Digest Thu, 09 May 2013 15:04:46 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=46168#comment-25539 [...] Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail? X Index — 8 May 2013 In an interview last year with the US Ambassador to Sana’a, Gerald Feierstein reiterated to me America’s interest in his case. “Haidar Shaye is in jail because he was facilitating al-Qaeda and its planning for attacks on Americans and therefore we have a very direct interest in his case and his imprisonment,” he said. No evidence has ever been produced by either the US or Yemeni Government to support the claim that Shaye was facilitating any such attacks. Yemeni journalists have repeatedly expressed their lingering fear over America’s meddling in Shaye’s case. Many became afraid to report on air strikes. One Yemeni journalist, like Shaye a specialist on al-Qaeda, renamed himself an “analyst of Islamic groups” and refused to do TV interviews especially with Al Jazeera after what happened to Shaye. [...]

]]> By: Foreign Policy Public Health Blog http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again/#comment-25466 Foreign Policy Public Health Blog Wed, 08 May 2013 22:21:36 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=46168#comment-25466 Yemen signals it may release journalist accused of AQAP ties…

Yemen's transitional government is signaling that it may release Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni…

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