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Yemen: Aden-based daily’s delivery trucks interceptedDate:05/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the repeated hijacking of trucks carrying copies of the privately-owned daily Al-Ayyam in the past few days...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: ARTICLE 19 Urges Yemeni Authorities to InvestigateDate:16/04/2009 ARTICLE 19 notes with concern that the Sana'a bureau of Al Jazeera satellite channel has recently received threats via text message, warning against correspondents' coverage of events in southern Yemen...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Authorities threaten to close Al Jazeera officeDate:16/07/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemns the escalation of the Yemeni government's crackdown on independent media which has now extended to the targeting of satellite television stations...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Controversial Special Court sentences journalists to jail and bans them from writingDate:19/01/2010 ARTICLE 19 expresses grave concern over prison sentences handed to two Yemeni journalists by the Special Court this week for expressing their opinion in print...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Dark Days for Yemeni MediaDate:02/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 is deeply concerned about the deteriorating climate for free expression in Yemen and urges the authorities to investigate the kidnapping of journalist Salah Jalal, and lift the suspensions imposed on several independent publications and websites since early May...
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Freedom of speech in the eyes of the Yemeni youthDate:23/07/2009 Compared to neighboring countries, Yemen has made notable achievements regarding the most important element of democracy, freedom of speech or expression...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: IFJ calls for end to repression of independent mediaDate:15/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today called on the authorities in Yemen to stop the escalating harassment of media, including the detention of journalists, court cases and harsh penalties which are threatening the survival of some of the country's independent news outlets...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Journalist sentenced to 14 months in jailDate:20/07/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Yemeni court of appeals to overturn a jail sentence it handed down on Wednesday against journalist Anis Mansour from the suspended independent daily Al-Ayyam...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
YEMEN: PM attends conference of freedom of expression and offense against religious Date:09/02/2009 Prime Minister Ali Mujawar attended on Saturday a opening session of conference on contemporary media between freedom of expression and offense against religious in Sanaa capital...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:07/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 calls on the Yemeni government to immediately lift all forms of censorship on the media and return confiscated newspapers...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Three Injured as Newspaper Offices AttackedDate:13/05/2009 This morning police surrounded and opened fire on the offices of independent daily Yemeni newspaper Al Ayyam's, resulting in injuries to three staff...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Worrying Violations of Media FreedomsDate:17/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 expresses concern about the deteriorating situation for media freedom in Yemen, and increasing incidents of harassment and intimidation of journalists by the authorities in that country...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen: Yemeni authorities prevents 6 newspapers from distributionDate:05/05/2009 Yemeni government ordered the confiscation of six national newspapers, whose copies were pulled from the news stands and markets across the country yesterday alleging their role in promoting secessionism and anti-unity rhetoric...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven killed and hundreds injured in YemenDate:15/03/2011 Sana'a: Two more anti-regime protesters died in Yemen on Sunday, a day after police shot them in the head, raising the death toll to seven from demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen 'curbing freedom' of press Date:06/05/2009 Two media freedom campaign groups have criticised Yemen for what they say are attempts to suppress reporting about protests in the south of the country...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen deports 4 journalists for protest coverage Date:15/03/2011 Cairo: Armed Yemeni security forces raided an apartment shared by four Western journalists on Monday and deported them because of their coverage of a growing uprising against the country's longtime ruler, one of the reporters said...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen drops thirteen places in RSF indexDate:26/10/2008 Independent and opposition journalists battled major restrictions and prosecution in 2007, with a dozen arrested and others physically attacked in the street, causing Yemen to slip thirteen places in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index (French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF), which covers the 12 months from September 2007 to September 2008...
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Sunday, 26 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen hosts the International conference Contemporary Media between freedom of expression and abuse of religionDate:09/02/2009 YemenOnline...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen must reveal whereabouts of detained journalistDate:24/09/2009 The Yemeni authorities must clarify the whereabouts of journalist Muhammad al-Maqalih, who was seized by plain-clothed assailants in the capital Sana'a late on Thursday...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemeni president pardons outspoken journalistDate:30/09/2008 The Editor-in-Chief of the opposition website, Mr Abdul Karim Al-Khaiwani, has received a presidential parton...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
YemenDate:30/09/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Yemen...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Yemen - Attacks on Journalists ContinueDate: 22 August 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...
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Monday, 22 August 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Yemen: Attacks on Journalists ContinueDate: 22 Aug 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
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Monday, 22 August 2011Last Modified:
Friday, 26 August 2011