4 Jan 2010 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Khaled al Jahafi, a journalist with the news website al Sahwa (the Awakening) was arrested on 27 December 2009 whilst covering clashes between security forces and separatists in the southern province of Dhala. Free expression organisations have called on the Yemeni government to release him immediately, and local sources have suggested that he was beaten by police officers upon his detention. Al Jahafi also teaches at Dhala University, where the authorities had previously tried to arrest him on October.
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28 May 2009 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
The Yemeni Minister of information has denied that the government had suspended any newspapers, saying that some willingly disappeared and others for troubles with printers. In recent months several newspapers have been shut down and there have been numerous attempts on journalists lives. Read more here
20 May 2009 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the censorship crisis in Yemen has worsened. Read more here
17 Mar 2009 | Middle East and North Africa, News
Journalist Abdulkarim Al Khaiwani has been pardoned again by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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