Sana’a  (Thursday, March 28, 2013):

Sana’a (March 25, 2013):

Freedom Foundation for media freedom, rights and development launched today the project of (Media Freedom: Monitoring and Advocacy) in the capital Sana’a, which lasts two years, with the funding of the European Union mission in Yemen.
At the inauguration ceremony, the President of Freedom Foundation, the journalist, Khaled al-Hammadi described the project and said "the goal of project is to monitor and document violations, provide legal support and advocacy to journalists and support media freedom professionally and legally". He explained that the project includes 7 training courses in the field of monitoring and documentation of media violations, and advocacy, in the field of professional safety, as well as in the field of media development. 

Sana’a (Saturday,09,03,2013)

Freedom Foundation for media freedoms, rights and development  condemned the  beating assault on the representative of al-Masdar newspaper , Ahmed al-Wali  and  confiscation of his journalistic tools by a number of central security soldiers.
In a statement to Freedom Foundation, Ahmed al-Wali confirmed that at twelve o'clock afternoon and while covering a demonstration of the Interior Ministry Staff  in front of the police academy in downtown Sana’a ,he got surprised that  five soldiers of the Central Security beaten him severely with AK47 butts and confiscated the TV camera and verbally abused him.

Thursday (28 February 2013):

Freedom Foundation for media freedom, rights and development strongly condemned the attack on Vice editor-in-chief of Yemen Nation website, the journalist, Hamud Ali Daghshar,and condemned the attempt to storm his house by thugs (Balatijah) loyal to the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sana’a.
In a statement, Daghshar confirmed that at half past twelve afternoon, while passing in the sixty street in the center of the capital Sana’a, along with his children, a group of thugs (Balatijah), returning from the event called by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the Seventy Square on Wednesday, have distributed and put pictures of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh on cars passing in the sixty street.

Sana’a (Saturday 23, February 2013)

Freedom Foundation for media freedom, rights and development issued its first Annual Report on Media Freedom in Yemen in a press conference held on Saturday in the office of Freedom Foundation in Sana’a.

The president of the Freedom Foundation Khaled al-Hammadi said “Huge efforts were exerted to implement this report about the media freedom situation in Yemen in an objective manner and to provide accurate data and information.

The report is divided into three chapters that are (Introduction to the Freedom Foundation, Activities of the Freedom Foundation in 2012 and violations against the media freedom), including summary tables of violations cases that reached to 260 cases, targeted 432 victims from all kinds of media men.

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Sana’a 22 February 2013

 Freedom Foundation have been informed from a source of the family of the journalist Wajdi al-Shabi, in Aden, that he was killed by masked gunmen dressing civilian clothes, they broke into his home in Aden and started to shoot him until he fell dead with his companion who was killed beside him.

 The source stated that al-Shabi was killed in mysterious circumstances without knowing the reasons behind his murder; the security services neither reveal the mystery that surrounded this murder nor those behind the killing.

New York, February 14, 2013— An unprecedented rise in the number of journalists killed and imprisoned in the past year coupled with restrictive legislation and state censorship is jeopardizing independent reporting in many countries, according to Attacks on the Press, a yearly assessment of global press freedom released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
"When journalists are silenced, whether through violence or laws, we all stand to lose because perpetrators are able to obscure misdeeds, silence dissent, and disempower citizens," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "The battle to control information is an assault on public accountability that cannot go unchallenged. Governments must prosecute perpetrators and stop those seeking to incapacitate public oversight by blunting critical and probing reporting."

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2012 ­– Year Two of the new Arab world

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“Arab spring” uprisings caused a lot of movements in the Press Freedom Index in 2011 and the situation was still very mixed in 2012, with countries where governments have fallen, countries where they still survive but are facing uprisings, and countries where, by dint of compromises and promises, they have managed to assuage the demands for change.

Syria and Bahrain at the bottom of the index

Syria is ranked 176th in the index, fourth from last. Of all the ranked countries, it is the one that saw the most attacks on freedom of information. Journalists are targeted by all the parties to the conflict – the regular army and the various opposition factions – who are waging an information war.

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Sana’a (16 February 2013):

 Freedom Foundation for media freedom, rights and development condemned the lawsuit filed by Yemeni Government against the editor-in-chief of news website (al-Tagheer Net), Arafat Madabesh, because of publishing an article on irregularities in the generating of electric power.

 Madabesh clarified that the Prime Minister, Mohammed Salem Basendwah, Electric power Minister Saleh Sumai  and Finance Minister Sakhr al-Wajeeh have filed a lawsuit against him because of