Dear visitor,

It’s my great honor to welcome you into this website, which aims at pressurizing the Yemeni authorities into unblocking YemenPortal.net, Yemen’s first news search engine.

Although the website will mainly focus on YemenPortal.net, it also aims at building pressure to also release the dozens of blocked Yemeni website that have been banned due to their news or opinion content.

In this website you will find lots of content including:

• Information about YemenPortal.net and details of its activities to have it unblocked
• Statements and press releases that were issued by advocate groups and organizations related to the ban

• Media coverage on the ban and other issues related to the portal
• Tips and ideas on how to circumvent website filtering with emphasis on sharing ideas with other members
• News updates on the blocked websites in Yemen plus other general violations committed against the press
• Plus more

We hope that with more exposure of such violations and through colloboration with international organizations, advocacy groups, blogs and websites that share the same concerns, we can bring greater pressure on the Yemeni regime and hence have them release the websites once and for all.

If/when YemenPortal.net is unblocked permanently, we will work on means to replicate this experiment on the many other blocked websites in Yemen and elsewhere to promote freedom of expression online.

Thank you again for visiting, and please do take the time to join our campaign.

Walid AL-SAQAF
Administrator
YemenPortal.net