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Belkis Wille

Yemen: A Place Where Expressing Your Opinion Can Get You Killed

There were 260 separate instances in 2012 in which journalists faced harassment, threats, forced disappearance and attempted murder.

September 17th, 2013

By Belkis Wille

Yemen: A Place Where Expressing Your Opinion Can Get You Killed

SANAA, Yemen — “Much as I miss them, I cannot live with my family anymore — my work puts them in danger,” Mohammed al-Rubaa, the 27-year-old host of a popular political satire TV show in Yemen, told me earlier this year. “The reality is that I entered a profession that may lead to a very short life." Since a transitional government took office

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