Index on Censorship » Al-Thawra http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Al-Thawra http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Yemen: Newspaper under siege http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/yemen-newspaper-under-siege/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/yemen-newspaper-under-siege/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:29:44 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=32782 The offices of a Yemeni newspaper have been surrounded by armed men for over a week. On February 2, state-run daily Al-Thawra was surrounded by hundreds of men loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attack followed the paper’s decision to print without Saleh’s picture on the front page for the first time in decades. The newspaper has not printed [...]

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]]> Yemeni newspaper have been surrounded by armed men for over a week. On February 2, state-run daily Al-Thawra was surrounded by hundreds of men loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attack followed the paper’s decision to print without Saleh’s picture on the front page for the first time in decades. The newspaper has not printed since Friday. In a similar attack, state-run daily Al-Gomhoriah was surrounded by Saleh supporters on Friday and Saturday. The group, who claimed the paper had become a mouthpiece for the opposition, prevented the paper from printing until Sunday. Four other journalists are under threat from a fatwa issued in early February that calls for their deaths and for the closure of the newspapers and websites that carried their articles.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/yemen-newspaper-under-siege/feed/ 0 Syrian journalist dies after being shot by gunmen http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/syria-burghul-shot-dead/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/syria-burghul-shot-dead/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:54:01 +0000 Sara Yasin http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=31656 A Syrian journalist with gunshot wounds in the head died on 2 January after three days in a Damascus hospital. Shukri Ahmed Ratib Abu Burghul was reportedly shot in the face deliberately on 30 December after hosting his weekly programme on Radio Damascus. Burghul was also deputy director of the censorship department of Al-Thawra, a state-owned [...]

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]]> Syrian journalist with gunshot wounds in the head died on 2 January after three days in a Damascus hospital. Shukri Ahmed Ratib Abu Burghul was reportedly shot in the face deliberately on 30 December after hosting his weekly programme on Radio Damascus. Burghul was also deputy director of the censorship department of Al-Thawra, a state-owned newspaper.

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