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
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
Journalist Abdulkarim Al Khaiwani has been pardoned again by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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Amnesty award winning Yemeni journalist Abdul Kareem al Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for ‘disseminating pro-rebel propaganda’, despite receiving a pardon from the president in September last year.
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