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	<title>Free YemenPortal.net!</title>
	<link>http://freeyemenportal.org</link>
	<description>Campaign to unblock YemenPortal.net</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Support Media Freedom in Yemen</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/05/09/support-media-freedom-in-yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/05/09/support-media-freedom-in-yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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A petition was set up to support Yemen&#8217;s freedom of the media. Kindly sign up at:
http://campaigns.aicongress.org/yemen/
and contribute by signing and by spreading the word to support the cause for the freedom of Yemeni media.
Also bookmark the blog initiating this campaign :
Campaign for a Free Media in Yemen 

And its Yemen Portal section at:
http://yemenfreemedia.wordpress.com/yemen-portal/
I sincerely thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Access Yemen Portal&#8221; circumventing software launched!</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/07/access-yemen-portal-circumventing-software-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/07/access-yemen-portal-circumventing-software-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/07/access-yemen-portal-circumventing-software-launched/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the blockage of YemenPortal.net in Yemen will come to an end for thousands who have been struggling to keep up with the most recent alternative domain. 
Inspired by Hamed Saber&#8217;s &#8220;Access Flickr!&#8221;, Walid Al-Saqaf devised a similar program that will only be used to access yemenportal.net from within Yemen. A successful experiment had demonstrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog has been censored in Yemen</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/06/blog-has-been-censored-in-yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/06/blog-has-been-censored-in-yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a serious twist and upsetting development, the Yemeni government blocked this blog along with the five domains of yemenportal.net including (yemenportal.net, yemen.arabiaportal.net, yemenportal.org, yemenportal.info, and yemenportal1.info).
This is another blow to Yemen&#8217;s freedom of expression. Now even protesting a ban is seen as a &#8216;threat to national security&#8217;, which makes our effort to combat censorship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official Launch!</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/02/official-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/04/02/official-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we have officially launched this blog to the world. Please fee free to circulate the blog&#8217;s link (http://freeyemenportal.org) to maximize its publicity.
Find below the press release announcing the launch.
Initiated by Mideast Youth and YemenPortal.net

FreeYemenPortal.org launched to campaign for unblocking yemenportal.net

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The anti-website censorship website freeyemenportal.org was officially launched today by Mideast Youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article19 protests Press Freedom Violations in Yemen</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/19/article19-protests-press-freedom-violations-in-yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/19/article19-protests-press-freedom-violations-in-yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release - 14 March 2008
Yemen: Support the Freedom of Expression Movement

ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the recurring attacks against freedom of the expression in Yemen and supports the local campaign for freedom of expression hosted by the Sisters&#8217; Arab Forum for Human Rights. In recent months, websites and newspapers have been blocked, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Status of domains for readers in Yemen</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/alternative-domains-for-readers-in-yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/alternative-domains-for-readers-in-yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as we know -as of today- the status of the domains of yemenportal.net are as follows:

 yemenportal.net: blocked (main domain)
 yemen.arabiaportal.net: blocked (alternative domain)
 yemenportal.org: blocked (alternative domain)
 yemenportal.info: open (alternative domain)

It is not ruled out that the authorities ban the second open alternative domain any day now, particularly as its popularity grows. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The devastating impact of the ban</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/the-devastating-impact-of-the-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/the-devastating-impact-of-the-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ban of yemenportal.net had a devastating impact on its readership, which is predominantly based in Yemen.
The below graph illustrates how radical an effect the first ban had on January 19, which is the date the government banned the website for the first time:
 
 It can be clearly seen how the number of hits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About our resistance to the government&#8217;s ban</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/about-our-resistance-to-the-governments-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/about-our-resistance-to-the-governments-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freeyemenportal.org/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you may know, after the ban of yemenportal.net, the website initiated a nation-wide resistance movement online. It is an effort to neutralize the advantage of the Yemeni government in restricting access to specific websites due to news or opinion content that it may dislike.
This resistance  is starting to yield results with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media coverage thus far</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/media-coverage-thus-far-2/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/media-coverage-thus-far-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the many stories published or broadcast in the media related to yemenportal.net&#8217;s ban.

March 1: Swedish Radio 1
Feb      13: Yemen Times
Feb      12: Java Report
Feb      11: AMEINFO
Feb 4:      Menassat 
Jan     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest Letters/Statements issued thus far</title>
		<link>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/protest-lettersstatements-issued-thus-far/</link>
		<comments>http://freeyemenportal.org/2008/03/17/protest-lettersstatements-issued-thus-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below you will find links to the different statements and protest letters issued in relation to the ban of the portal.  They are listed by date of issuance.

Feb 13: Reporters Sans Frontiers
Feb 12: Article19 
Feb 11: Committee To Protect Bloggers
Feb 01: World Association of Newspapers
Jan 31: International Center for Journalists (IJNET) 
Jan 31: World [...]]]></description>
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