December 15, 2004

Abdulkareem al-Khaiwani Censored

Yemeni journalist Abdulkareem al-Khaiwani is in prison. Jane Novak has this essay published in three newspapers in the Muslim world. From Pakistan's Daily Times:

He is not allowed a pen in a country of 60 million guns. Sentenced to one year at hard labour, he is in prison where he has been beaten, his jaw broken. His friends and colleagues may not speak with him. He is a newspaper editor...

Abdulkareem al-Khaiwani spends this night in a Yemeni prison because his inquiring pen is deemed a greater threat than the 60 million guns, when it is his pen that is among his nation’s greatest assets.

Read the whole thing.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 02:30 PM | |