Al-Nahar [Archives:2005/839/Press Review]

28 Apr. 2005
Main headlines

– A campaign to topple a new draft for press law proposed by the ministry of information

– Al-Nahar newspaper on trial for lawsuits from al-Thawra hospital and sheik al-Jaashin

– Torrents cut the Yemen-Saudi highway

– 86 cases of polio in Hodeidah and fears of spread to other governorates

– Education unions crisis re-emerge

Writer Mohammed al-Qadhi describes in an article the press draft law presented by the ministry of information as totalitarian and disastrous. He says it has disclosed intentions of the government towards journalists and the press, adding that they have not yet comprehended the reality of the ongoing international changes and tempest blowing on the Middle East.

The government would not produce but such a press law that would restrain the word and renders the journalist haunted with prohibits to an extent he would not be able to write any word on this or that sovereign.

The writer says the journalists and their syndicate have now to topple this draft law and to fight a real battle against it. The syndicate has to realize the impending danger to all and to lead a campaign to discuss the law and explain all its failures and flaws. It has, on the other hand, proposed a vision of a draft law representing the journalists and expressing their ambitions in a liberal law.
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