YJS pledges to draft its own press law [Archives:2005/838/Front Page]

Mohammed Al-Qadhi
The Yemen Journalists Syndicate (YJS) completely rejected a press and publication law draft presented by the Ministry of Information which is full of taboos and prohibitions and is even worse than the press and publication law of 1990 which is now being in force.

At a roundtable discussion held last Thursday, the YJS demanded a campaign to overset the draft law of the information ministry, and called on journalists to contribute to the press law draft it is carrying out. “We need a press law that complies with the developments and changes in the world. The ministry of information prepared this draft without the consultation of the YJS,” Mahboob Ali , chairman of the YJS addressed the journalists participating in the roundtable entitled ” Reading the Legislations related to Media Freedom New Draft Press and Publication.”

President Ali Abdullah Saleh specifically demanded in June 2004 a removal of the clause allowing the imprisonment of journalists.

The situation seemed to improve since then. But