Yemen - Death threats to journalists and mob attacks on news media

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a recent surge in media freedom violations and attacks on journalists at a time of political tension in the run-up to the presidential election scheduled for 21 February. Four journalists and activist bloggers are currently under threat from a fatwa issued at the start of February by senior clerics that explicitly calls for their deaths and for the closure of the newspapers and websites that carried their articles. It was the appearance of an (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mercredi 8 février 2012