Yemen - Leading journalist murdered in Sanaa

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by today's murder of leading Yemeni journalist and human rights defender Abdul Karim Mohammed al-Khaiwani. Witnesses said gunmen on a motorcycle shot him several times near his home in a residential district of Sanaa. A former editor of Al-Shoura (a pro-democracy newspaper closed in 2005) and winner of Amnesty International UK's Special Award for Human Rights Journalism under Threat in 2008, he had received many death threats in recent years. “We (...)

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