Journalists Targeted
YEMEN: Journalists harassed and locked up
SANAA, (IRIN) – On Wednesday, Nasr Taha Mustafa, the president of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS), asked the Ministry of Interior to order an investigation into an attack by a police officer on Ahmed al-Shalafi, a correspondent with al-Jazeera television.
Mustafa also demanded the Interior Ministry release journalist Abdul-Hadi Naji who has been detained in Aden for two weeks for a financial case in which he was not involved, Mustafa said.
Meanwhile, al-Nass weekly newspaper said its reporter Anees Mansour was detained on Tuesday for two hours by security men as he was covering armed clashes between tribes and security forces in Lahj governorate. Mansour said security men insulted him and one soldier trampled over his journalistic card.
On 26 November, YJS said that the one-year prison sentence given to Kamal al-Ulefi, the editor-in-chief of al-Rai al-Aam weekly, was unfair. The Sana’a court, which issued the verdict on 25 November, also banned al-Ulefi from writing for six months because his newspaper republished blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which were first published by a Danish newspaper.
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