January 11, 2008
Reports on Press Freedom in Yemen
The third annual report on press freedom has been issued by the Yemen based NGO, Women Journalists Without Chains, and is quite detailed.
Article 19's report on Yemen, "Freedom of Expression in Peril", contains this from our friend Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani, "They mobilize religion, laws and even the tribe against us. We, on the other hand, only own our dreams. They even want to rob us of this."
The report examines the slander of female journalists. I also found this to be a good section:
3. MEDIA MUZZLED AND JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK................. 9
3.1. Media environment: state monopoly and censorship
3.1.1. Cloning the media.
3.1.2. Licences withdrawn.
3.1.3. Websites and SMS services filtered and censored
3.1.4. Access to and dissemination of information
3.2. Media professionals under attack: violence, prosecution and imprisonment
3.2.1. Harassment, threats and assaults of journalists
3.2.2. Killings
3.2.3 Prosecution and imprisonment of Journalists
3.3. Prosecuting journalists before the Special Criminal Court on Terrorism
