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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Jailed Yemeni journalist Abdul-Karim Al Khaiwani has left jail after the nation’s president granted him an amnesty and cancelled his six-year sentence.
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Abdul Karim al Khaiwani, former editor of now blocked website al-Shora.net, has been sentenced to six years in jail for distributing publications allegedly calling for solidarity with Houthi rebels in the south of the country. Mr al Khaiwani had been due to travel to London next week to attend the Amnesty Media awards, in which he was shortlisted for the Special Award For Human Rights Journalism Under Threat.
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On 19 January, three domestic news and opinion websites were blocked to users in Yemen by the government-owned Internet provider. The sites joined a list of at least five others that have been censored without any official explanation.