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Yemen sentences woman for insulting president

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A Yemeni court has sentenced in absentia a female journalist to one year in prison for insulting the president.

 

Anisa Mohammed Ali Othman told The Associated Press Sunday that the two-year-old case over a pair of articles she wrote about corruption and injustice in Yemen was politically motivated. (AP) 

 

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