{"id":32782,"date":"2012-02-13T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32782"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:37:41","slug":"yemen-newspaper-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32782","title":{"rendered":"Yemen: Newspaper under siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The offices of a <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Yemen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Yemen\" target=\"_blank\">Yemeni<\/a> newspaper have <a title=\"CPJ: Yemeni newspaper office under siege\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2012\/02\/yemeni-newspaper-office-under-siege.php\" target=\"_blank\">been surrounded<\/a> by armed men for over a week. On February 2,\u00a0state-run daily\u00a0Al-Thawra\u00a0was surrounded by hundreds of men loyal to President\u00a0Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attack followed the paper&#8217;s decision to print without\u00a0Saleh&#8217;s picture on the front page for the first time in decades. The newspaper has not printed since Friday. In a similar attack,\u00a0state-run daily\u00a0Al-Gomhoriah was surrounded by Saleh supporters on\u00a0Friday and Saturday. The group, who claimed the paper had become a\u00a0mouthpiece for the opposition, prevented the paper from printing until Sunday.\u00a0Four other journalists are under threat <a title=\"IFEX: Journalists receive death threats; news media attacked\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/yemen\/2012\/02\/08\/death_threats\/\" target=\"_blank\">from a fatwa<\/a> issued in early February that calls for their deaths and for the closure of the newspapers and websites that carried their articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The offices of a Yemeni newspaper have been surrounded by armed men for over a week. On February 2,\u00a0state-run daily\u00a0Al-Thawra\u00a0was surrounded by hundreds of men loyal to President\u00a0Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attack followed the paper&#8217;s decision to print without\u00a0Saleh&#8217;s picture on the front page for the first time in decades. The newspaper has not printed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[4281,4149,2982,7356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32869,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32782\/revisions\/32869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}