I'm toggling back and forth between grief and rage on the one hand (for the fact that another person sentenced today got the death penalty, and for the incarceration and oppression of Al-Khaiwani), and relief on the other—that Jane's efforts paid off in saving Al-Khaiwani's life, so he can fight another day. So we can fight another day.

This from the same court that finds it legal and even admirable when Yemenis murder Iraqis in Iraq. But writing about the Yemeni civilians suffering during Ali MohsenÂ’s personal jihad in SaÂ’ada is punishable by six years in jail. Every journalist in Yemen is much less free now. And so is the world.

Jane goes on to point out that the ruling thugs in Yemen have at least been unmasked as a junta. She is planning more international civil disobedience (that is to say, consciousness-raising pranks against the Yemeni thugs). So stay tuned.

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