Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’
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 houseAl-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.
October 7th, 2011
Iona Craig on the the Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner
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September 8th, 2011
Two
Yemeni journalists were
attacked by armed men on Monday. Abdul al-Hafeez al-Hatami from news website Al-Sahwa Net
and Raafat al-Amiri, cameraman for Suhail TV, an opposition news station, were covering the rising prices of oil in the western province of Hobeidah. The journalists were attacked by a group of men in Al-Duha district, who confiscated their camera, which was only returned after intervention and negotiations from a local tribe. This attack follows a similar attack on a BBC journalist in August, and previous attacks on Al-Sahwa Net and
Suhail TV, highlighting the increasing danger for journalists in Yemen.
August 22nd, 2011
Suhail TV cameraman Ahmad Firas was
arrested by soldiers from Daylami airbase in
Yemen on the afternoon of 12 August as he was driving towards Sanaa with his wife and children, who were released a few hours later. The soldiers, who seized his equipment, gave no reason for his arrest and are still holding him. In
another case, several unidentified men tried to stab Mohamed Ayda, the Sanaa bureau chief of the US Arabic-language TV station Al-Hurra, on 10 August.
