AHRAM ONLINE: Yemeni minister of Information justify [sic] its decision to close Al-Jzeera's [sic] office in Sanna because of broadcasting "false information and mistaken footage"
Yemen said on Thursday it evicted Al-Jazeera, which gives extensive coverage of Arab revolts, after it said footage of torture in an Iraqi jail was broadcast as having been filmed in the Arabian peninsula state.
The closure of the Arab news channel's offices in Sanaa on Wednesday was the result of "false information and the broadcast of mistaken footage," the information ministry said.
The ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency Saba, accused the Qatar-based satellite television of "lacking credibility, professionalism and impartiality" in its coverage of anti-regime protests in Yemen.
On Wednesday, Al-Jazeera ran footage of torture in an Iraqi prison as if the footage had been shot in Yemen, it said. » | AFP | Thursday, March 24, 2011
