Yemen
Country Profile: Yemen
Background
The modern Republic of Yemen was established in 1990 when traditionalist North Yemen and Marxist South Yemen merged. Although the country has been modernizing and opening up to the world, it still maintains much of its tribal character and many of its...
- Posted on 07/Aug/2009; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: When a Canadian company decides what citizens in the Middle East can access online
Users in Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Kuwait reported via Twitter in the past couple of days that they are not able to access the blog hosting platform tumblr.com or any other blog hosted by the platform. This filtering incident surprised both the...
- Posted on 16/May/2011; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Websense Bars Yemen's Government from Further Software Updates
When ONI released its Middle East and North Africa reports, an avid reader quickly submitted an article to Slashdot noting the government of Yemen's use of Websense filtering software, as reported in our 2009 Yemen country profile.
Websense, a U.S.-based company,...
- Posted on 12/Aug/2009; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Filtering tech and software
Report: Internet Filtering in Yemen in 2006-2007
PDF Version | PDF Version (Arabic)
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Yemen.
Overview
Internet filtering in the Republic of Yemen is relatively broad in scope, with pornography a principal target for blocking. Despite the wide...
ONI Blog: Maktoobblog.com is blocked in Yemen
Several days ago, Internet users in Yemen reported that they could not access maktoobblog.com, a major blog hosting service in the Middle East and North Africa. ONI technical investigation verified that the service has been blocked by Yemennet, Yemen’s government-run ISP....
- Posted on 24/Mar/2008; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Insurgency against Internet filtering: Yemen's electronic media's reaction to crackdown on Web sites
Yemen's major news aggregator and portal calls for "insurgency against Internet filtering" after the government of Yemen blocked the portal and at least 7 other news Web sites. The portal, yemenportal.net, warned in a press release (Arabic) that, unless the government...
- Posted on 26/Jan/2008; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Concern about online censorship in Yemen
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about growing political censorship of the Internet in Yemen after the authorities blocked access to the opposition website www.al-shora.net on 24 February. The site regularly carries articles about corruption, human rights and the need for political...
- Posted on 08/Mar/2007; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Yemen blocks local newspaper's Web site
Al-Shora.net, the Web site of a local Yemeni newspaper has been blocked in Yemen after it published reports critical of the government, the site reported (Arabic). Some local newspapers condemned the blocking and publicized (Nass Press and al-Wahdawi...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2007; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Internet in Yemen: All roads lead backwards (Yemen Times editorial)
In a recent editorial in the Yemen Times, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) criticized the government-mandated removal of barriers separating users at Internet cafes, calling it a violation of users' privacy rights. According to HRinfo, the...
- Posted on 01/Feb/2007; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
