almotamar.net - SANAA-South-East capital secretariat court issued sentences of 4-mont suspended imprisonment against editor in chief and a reporter of Al-Hurriyah newspaper Akram Sabra and reporter Yahya al-Abid in the case of re-publication of cartoons offending Prophet Mohammed.

The verdict also included closure of the newspaper and prevention of both journalists from writing for one month.

Court verdicts had earlier been issued against editors in chiefs of Al-Rai Al-A'am and Yemen Observer newspapers on the same case. The court sentenced the first one Kamal; al-Ulfi to one year imprisonment and closure of his newspaper for six months as well as preventing him from writing for six months. The court fined the second editor in chief Mohammed al-Assadi an amount of YR 500 thousand. Both sentences were issued last week.

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate condemned the court sentences against those journalists at the backdrop of the cartoons and demanded closure of the cartoons file.