Three more are no longer accessible inside Yemen:
Several Yemeni news and opinion Web sites have apparently been blocked domestically by the government-owned Internet service provider, according to news reports and a CPJ interview.
Three Web sites became unavailable to domestic users on January 19, joining a list of at least five others that have disappeared within Yemen without explanation in recent months.
Walid al-Saqaf, founder and administrator of the news crawler YemenPortal, told CPJ today that several overseas contacts confirmed that they were still able to view his popular site even as it was unavailable domestically.
Al-Saqaf said officials with the service provider, run by the Ministry of Telecommunications, could not explain why his site was unavailable but denied deliberately blocking access. The ministry has offered no public explanation as to why the sites are unavailable...
Al-Saqaf said he believes his site may have been blocked after it posted citizen videos of a January 13 protest in the southern port city of Aden. The videos show security forces firing unprovoked at the crowd, he said, in contradiction of the government’s account.
Very mysterious. The Ministry of Telecommunications should hire a detective to track down the missing websites. How about Inspector Gadget?
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