Yemen court closes newspaper, fines and bans journalists from writing

In one of the harshest court verdicts issued recently against the press, the Yemeni Western Court of Sanaa sentenced Saturday 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 YEaeed protested the verdict, which journalists describe as ‘another indication of the oppression that the opposition press iR 300,000 (about EUR 1,464). The newspaper’s editor-in-chief Abdulrahman Abdullah Ibrahim and its writer Abdulraman Ss exposed to’. This verdict is the latest in a series of similar verdicts, of which some had gone to the extremes of imprisoning journalists. Alongside court verdicts, illegal violations against the press were also reported to have risen sharply this year. This in turn triggered international concern about the status of journalists in Yemen. (Yemen Times,November 28, 2005)

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