Yemen Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Dutch couple released in Yemen

December 11, 2013 9:57 AM EST

Judith Spiegel, who reports for multiple Dutch outlets in Yemen, and her husband, Boudewijn Berendsen, were released six months after being taken hostage by an unknown group, the Dutch and Yemeni governments said in a joint statement on December 10, 2013.

Abdulelah Hider Shaea smiles after being released from jail. (Reuters/Farouq al-Sharani)

Abdulelah Shaea freed after three years in Yemeni jail

July 24, 2013 12:40 PM EDT

New York, July 24, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release on Tuesday of Yemeni freelance journalist Abdulelah Hider Shaea, who had been imprisoned for almost three years on anti-state charges. Shaea was released yesterday after President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued a pardon, which also stipulated that the journalist could not leave Sana’a,…

A screenshot taken from YouTube shows the Dutch journalist and her husband pleading for their lives. (YouTube)

Journalist and her husband kidnapped in Yemen

July 19, 2013 3:00 PM EDT

New York, July 19, 2013–A Dutch journalist and her husband reported missing in Yemen in June have appeared in a video, pleading for their lives and asking for their captors’ demands to be met. Judith Spiegel, a Yemen correspondent for Radio Netherlands Worldwide, and her husband, Boudewijn Berendsen, were abducted by an unknown group in…

Yemeni daily convicted, acquitted of defamation in two cases

June 7, 2013 1:10 PM EDT

In two separate sessions on June 6, 2013, the Specialized Press and Publications Court found a Yemeni daily guilty of defamation charges in one case and innocent in another, according to news reports.

At least three journalists abducted in Yemen

May 22, 2013 11:10 AM EDT

New York, May 22, 2013–At least three journalists have been held hostage by armed tribesmen for a week in Yemen, according to news reports.

More attacks, legal threats against Yemeni journalists

May 7, 2013 5:42 PM EDT

New York, May 7, 2013 – Yemeni journalists are facing continued physical and legal jeopardy, with one journalist receiving death threats and two others facing politicized defamation charges.

Journalists attacked, threatened amid Yemen protests

April 29, 2013 6:17 PM EDT

New York, April 29, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on Al-Jazeera journalists and threats against a Sky News Arabia news crew by anti-government protesters in Aden on Saturday–the latest in a wave of violence against the press in the country.

Separate attacks injure 5 Yemeni journalists, relatives

April 26, 2013 5:28 PM EDT

New York, April 26, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a series of serious assaults on the Yemeni press that have left at least five journalists or their family members injured.

In Yemen, journalists face threats from all directions

April 18, 2013 2:13 PM EDT

New York, April 18, 2013–Yemeni authorities must investigate a series of assaults on the press in the past two weeks and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A bomb was discovered at a building that houses media outlets and three journalists received death threats, according to news…

Yemeni journalist given jail term for reporting on corruption

April 8, 2013 11:40 AM EDT

New York, April 8, 2013–A Yemeni news editor who reported frequently on alleged misuse of a public reconstruction fund was sentenced to a three-month jail sentence in relation to one of his articles, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on an appellate court to overturn the conviction.