Sahwa Net-The Specialized Press and Publications Court sentenced on Saturday the editor-in-chief of Al-Nass newspaper, Osama Ghalib and journalist Fawzi al-Kahili a fine of YR 50.000.
The prosecution has accused Ghalib and al-Kahili of publicly releasing articles which abused Adel Qaid, director of al-Mithaq Foundation which belongs to Yemen's ruling party, the General People's Congress.
Ghablib said he expected such this rule, pointing out that he was informed that the Justice Minister deeply hates his newspaper because of its articles which often criticize performance of his ministry.
He also asked the US newly appointed ambassador to Yemen, Gerald Michael Feierstein, to allocate some of the US assistance to Yemen to pay fines imposed by this court against journalists, rather than allocating them to what he described the "counterterrorism lie"
