Summary
The article claiming a series of ominous signs in connection with press freedoms in Yemen makes two significant errors of fact ("Press limits taint Yemeni reforms," World, March 30).
First, reporter Peter Willems writes that a journalist at the center of this controversy, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, was tried without benefit of a lawyer. This is false. He was tried in a San'a Superior Court; his attorneys were Mohammed Naji Allow, one of the most prominent human rights lawyers in Yemen, and Jamal Ajobi, also a well- known lawyer in San'a.See the full content of this document
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Yemen's Free Press
Second, Mr. Willems writes that Mr. al-Khaiwani was deni...
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