On the morning of 3 January 1995, the Aden-based independent weekly “Al-Ayyam” paid the state-owned 14th of October Press in Aden to print its 200th issue. That night, the government printing facility returned the paper’s money, claiming that they could not print the issue because their equipment was in disrepair. On the morning of 4 […]
On the morning of 3 January 1995, the Aden-based independent
weekly “Al-Ayyam” paid the state-owned 14th of October Press in
Aden to print its 200th issue. That night, the government
printing facility returned the paper’s money, claiming that
they could not print the issue because their equipment was in
disrepair. On the morning of 4 January, Hisham Bashraheel, one of
the paper’s publishers, obtained a court order requiring the 14th
of October Press to print “Al-Ayyam”. Presented with the order,
the printers still refused to do the job, apparently because of
interior ministry instructions not to print “Al-Ayyam”.
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Sanaa
Republic of Yemen
