Yemeni court detains Quds Press news agency
Yemen, Politics, 4/14/2004

A court in Sanaa sentenced to banning the correspondent of the Quds press news agency and secretary of the Journalists Union in Yemen Saeed Thabet from practicing journalism for 6 months and paying a penalty of 5,000 Yemeni Riyals ( USD 28).

Thabet described the sentence as a grave mistake and called in a statement on the need to introduce tremendous reforms in the Judiciary. He stressed that the battle between the journalists and what he had called corruption and the violation of security and judiciary will not stop, noting that this is the very role of the press.

For his part, lawyer Muhammad Naji Allao doubted the sentence issued against his client and said in a similar statement that the sentence is null on the ground that the process of detaining the journalist was illegal.

The court, however, found Thabet guilty over campaigning lies after news rumored on that the son of the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was exposed to assassination attempt, a matter which the government had denied.

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