Arab journalists union voices solidarity with jailed Yemeni colleague
The Arab Journalists Union voiced solidarity Wednesday with chief editor of the Yemeni "ath-thaqafia" newspaper, Sameer Al-Yusufi, who was sent to jail.
A press release, issued by the union's secretariat, said the sentence aroused controversies among journalists and intellectuals in Yemen and the Arab world. The journalist was indicted for re-publishing a novel entitled "Sanaa an OPEC city," written by mohammad abdulmawla who died over 20 years ago, said the cairo-based union.
This sentence, it said, "is a new addition to the horror series against writers to deprive them from freedom, adding that sending journalists to prison showed more deliberate restrictions on the press freedom of press in Arab states."
