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