US Human Rights Report on Yemen: Security Officials Seek to Influence Press Coverage [Archives:2000/10/Front Page]

The U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, in cooperation with the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, issued a report on Human Rights Practices In Yemen For 1999. The report covers all aspects of human rights practices in Yemen. 
The report says that it gathered its information from a variety of sources including government officials, journalists, human rights monitors, jurists, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and academic experts. 
The report was submitted to the U.S. Congress on February 25, 1999 by the U.S. Department of State. Such reports are usually meant to assist the Congress in the assessment of legislation pertaining to financial and other assistance to other countries. The report included accusations that security officials in Yemen sought to influence news coverage through harassment, threats, detentions and other coercive measures.  Full Text on
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