After withdrawal of the lawsuit about the  “$22.5 billion” article by the Yemen Times ESCAPE FROM JUSTICE! [Archives:1999/25/Front Page]

Two weeks have passed since the late Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf passed away. Just one day before his death, he attended a court session in a case against the “Yemen Times.” The newspaper was charged with falsification of information for publishing a front-page article asking where the US $22.5 billion coming into the country went last year. In that session, Judge Sheik Mohamed Al-Raimi demanded that the Attorney General provide accurate information related to the financial inflow to the country in the last 20 years to prove the invalidity of the Yemen Times numbers if he thinks that they are false. But the Attorney General said that he had nothing to disprove the Yemen Times figures whatsoever. The Judge then postponed the session until the Prosecution could bring documents to disprove the Yemen Times numbers. On the other hand, the late Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf declared that he had the evidence proving that the numbers were correct. In fact, according to the deceased, the documents he had, showed that the number is actually higher (around $25 billion) than the figures that he had conservatively given. The documents were prepared by the deceased and were ready to submit to the court. The case was going in favor of the Yemen Times, and would have been an additional boost to the credibility of the newspaper in revealing the truth about government finances, as well as other important information that the public has the right to know.  More on Law & Diplomacy Page
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