Just when you think you've heard it all about the Yemeni government, you discover a new low they've sunk to. When Amnesty International and the rightosphere agree on a cause, you know it's a serious matter.

Read about it at Jane's place, and sign the Amnesty International petition (scroll down; there's an English version on there, so you'll know what you're signing).

Please. Let's do this.

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. . . the master chronology on the situation in Yemen. If you've been wanting to figure out what's going on there, and how they are systematically destroying any kind of semi-free press, it's a good place to start.

Let the creeps in the Yemeni government know that "the audience is listening."

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The Yemeni government just shut down the opposition newspaper, and its editor—whom we sprang from jail just a few months ago—may well be killed.

I'm asking all my readers to send e-mail to remind them that the West has millions of compassionate people who are watching them.

Here's your one-stop shopping to write to the Yemeni brass:

jfbg714@aol.com),ambassador@yemenembassy.org,  nic@y.net.ye, yemen-info@y.net.ye, political@yemenembassy.org, media@yemenembassy.org, congressional@yemenembassy.org, president@whitehouse.gov, senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov,HIRC@mail.house.gov">click here
 
Suggested subject lines:
"In support of al-Khaiwanii and al-Shoura"
or "in support of a Free Press in Yemen"
or to really want to annoy them "regarding my cousin al-Khaiwanii"
maybe "Waiting for the next issue of al-Shoura."

Please do this; the best way to express solidarity with Britain right now is to keep the pressure on AQ sympathizers around the world. Yemen's in trouble, and a man's life is in jeopardy.

Please reproduce this post on your own sites. No link back here is necessary. Write me if you need the html for the above, or simply a list of the addresses. Most of the Cotillion ladies have the same information, if you can't get hold of me this afternoon.

Thank you.

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