Reporters Without Borders, Yemeni media and journalists targeted by spate of prosecutions, 20 April 2010, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4bd53fa1c.html [accessed 29 May 2023]
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The parliament is currently considering a draft media law that was submitted in 2005 by the ruling General People's Congress with the aim of replacing the current one, which dates back to 1990. In a statement for Al-Sahwa.net, Union of Yemeni Journalists spokesman Saeed Thabet said the bill was "authoritarian, worse than the law currently in force." If adopted, the law would send the Yemeni media back to the situation prevailing in the 1970s and 1980s.
On 18 February 2010, Reporters Without Borders submitted a request for a visa to carry out a fact-finding visit to Yemen. It still has not received a response.
