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Category: YemenBy Curt on Apr 4, 2008 in Walid Al-Saqaf, Yemen, Censorship | 0 Comments
Some goings on in Yemen are so peculiar and unbelievable as to be Orwellian. Please read the letter below from Walid Al-Saqaf, admin for Yemen Portal. He’s put up with harassment in the last few months, as have many Yemeni journalists and citizen news sites. Now he and his colleagues may find themselves up against […]
By Curt on Mar 26, 2008 in Yemen, Blocked | 0 Comments
According to the Jawa Report, Yemen has blocked that country’s major blog host.
In a rather Stalinist reaction to growing civil unrest (a half million people demonstrated in South Yemen on Monday), Yemen blocked 1126 Yemeni blogs by blocking the hosting platform Matoob.
A variety of online newspapers and opinion sites were previously blocked. However the […]
By Curt on Feb 11, 2008 in Walid Al-Saqaf, YemenPortal, Yemen, Free speech, Censorship | 4 Comments
A car belonging to YemenPortal, was vandalized today. Editor Walid Al-Saqaf indicated in a note that he believes official representatives of the Yemeni government directly responsible. He believes the action was a result of his attempt to provide alternative URLs for his site. He created an alternative domain and emailed it to several hundred subscribers […]
By Curt on Jan 29, 2008 in YemenPortal, Yemen, Free Kareem, Filtering, Blocked | 1 Comment
Update: Sami sends the following note, via FreeKareem.
Today, It is allowed for anyone in Yemen to Access Free Kareem campaign. It seems that Yemeni Authorities had received tens of letters asking for releasing this site.
Unfortunately, they blocked my newest blog. It is bad to know that I could not access it from Yemen, and my […]
