Yemeni Editor Fined For Danish Cartoons
A court in Yemen has fined Mohammad al-Asadi, the editor of the English-language Yemen Observer approximately $2500 USD for reprinting Danish cartoons in the publication earlier this Fall.
On November 25th the editor of al-Rai al-Aaam Kamal al-Olufi was sentenced to a year in jail and that paper was closed. A Yemeni journalists group had just made a call for closing the file on such cases when the latest sentence was announced.
