The Voice of the People Silenced
More attacks on free speech:
(YT/NY) In one of the harshest court verdicts issued recently against the press, the Western Court of Sanaa sentenced yesterday the Al-Tajammu opposition newspaper to closure for six months, banned its Editor-in-Chief and one of its writers from writing for a year and fined them a total of YR 300,000 (about USD 1,500).The newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief Dr. Abdulrahman Abdullah Ibrahim and its writer Abdulraman Saeed protested the verdict, which journalists describe as ‘another indication of the oppression that the opposition press is exposed to’.
Related: (Article 19) The proposed media law drafted in response to concerns about freedom of expression in Yemen is an instrument of legal censorship, exclusion, intimidation, financial retribution, and harassment.
