(NewsYemen) Nov 27, Sanaa 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’.
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.
