Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’
May 8th, 2013
The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports
Cartoonist Kamal Sharaf shows Shaye locked up while US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein looks on holding the keys. The text says: Freedom for the Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye
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September 15th, 2012
Reducing the backlash over “The Innocence of Muslims” to a hysterical reaction to blasphemy ignores deep unease at the US’s role in the Arab world, says Myriam Francois-Cerrah
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June 7th, 2012
A
Yemeni court on Monday
sentenced journalist Majed Karoot to one year in prison and fined him YR 200,000 for
criticising local government officials on the popular social networking site Facebook. The director of corporate communications for the Al-Baida governorate, Mohammed Al-Karfoshi and his deputy, Kamal Al-Najar filed the complaint against posts made by the journalist on the site last year. The Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS) called the verdict a “threat to freedom of the press and freedom of expression”.
April 16th, 2012
Prominent Yemeni journalist Muhammad al-Maqaleh was assaulted by armed men affiliated with a tribal group while visiting a government official’s house
Al-Maqaleh, editor of the news website Aleshteraki for the Yemeni Socialist Party, visited Defense Minister Mohamed Nasser Ahmed’s residence on Saturday [14 April] in the capital, Sana’a, to inquire about the presence of armed men dressed in military uniforms in the neighborhood,
he told CPJ. When the journalist began speaking to the men outside the house–who were aligned with Yemen’s most influential tribal group, the al-Ahmar family — they began attacking him with their rifle butts and threatened him repeatedly, news reports
said.
The journalist did not sustain any injuries, but the group broke the windshield of his car.
February 14th, 2012
The pardoned journalist has been imprisoned for one year at the request of the US administration. Iona Craig reports
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February 13th, 2012
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 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.
January 27th, 2012
After a year of political unrest following the Arab Spring, Iona Craig reports on the current situation in Yemen.
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October 18th, 2011
A cameraman for Al-Yemen TV, Abd Al-Ghani Al-Bureihi,
was killed when
Yemeni security forces opened fire at a demonstration in Sanaa calling for the president to step down on 16 October. Two other cameramen were also allegedly injured at the same demonstration, including Salah Al-Hatar of Al-Jazeera.
