New York, April 20, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Yemeni authorities today to explain why they have held prominent journalist Ali Salah Ahmed since Tuesday without revealing his location or charging him with a crime.
New York, February 22, 2011--The Committee to
Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ongoing deterioration of conditions for
the media in the Middle East, including the disappearance of Atef al-Atrash, a
critical Libyan journalist, since anti-Qaddafi
demonstrations began February 17. The Internet has been intermittently down since Saturday
in the country, according to international news reports, and foreign
journalists continue to be denied entry. Al-Jazeera's signal in Libya remains
jammed, according to the network. In Yemen, security forces confiscated the
print run of an independent newspaper and at least one reporter was injured as
demonstrations turned violent. And in Iraq, 50 gunmen reportedly shot up an
independent television station while the staff of a local newspaper was forced to
evacuate their offices.
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