Article 51: Newspapers and magazines are strictly forbidden from accepting subventions or
gifts of any sort from nonYemeni bodies, whatever the purpose of such subventions or gifts.
Article 52: It is forbidden to open subscription lists to meet any fines, duties or compensation
due from publishers or workers in newspapers.
Article 53: Owners of newspapers and magazines shall keep regular ledgers on sound
accounting principles and shall select chartered accountants to supervise the accounts and
audit the annual budget of the newspaper.
Article 54: The Ministry of Information shall scrutinise newspapers' financial accounts,
budgets and vouchers to ensure that they comply with the provisions of this part of the law.
The Ministry's agents in scrutinising the data shall preserve the confidentiality of the
newspaper's operations except where the law has been violated.
PART THREE: CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND PUBLICATIONS
Article 55: No newspaper, magazine or publication may be put into circulation unless it
carries clearly, on any of its pages, the names of the newspaper, magazine or publication, the
publisher and the editor in chief., the date and place of issue, the price per copy, the cost of
subscription, the number of the issue and the name of the printing press and publishing house
at which it was printed.
Article 56:
a) Any person who wishes to import any cultural material and stationery and to open a cultural
emporium shall obtain permission in writing from the Minister of Culture prior to such activity.
b) Any person who wishes to carry on the business of import, sale, distribution and circulation
of newspapers and magazines shall obtain permission in writing from the Ministry of
Information prior to such activity.
Article 57: Any newspaper, magazine or publication printed outside Yemen may be circulated
according to the law in force provided that it does not contain forbidden material. The Minister
concerned has the right to prohibit the circulation of any newspaper, magazine or publication,
whose contents contravene the provisions of this law.
Article 58:
a) The owner of a newspaper, magazine or publication has the right to appeal against a
prohibition of circulation.
b) Measures taken to prohibit the circulation of a newspaper, magazine or publication do not
bar the taking of legal measures in accordance with the regulations in force.
Article 59: Bookshops which sell and circulate newspapers, magazines, publications and
stationery may be opened with the written permission of the appropriate department in the
Ministry of Culture. No permission is required by those shops which distribute newspapers,
magazines and publications as an additional activity and to which it is not their principal
source of livelihood.
PART FOUR: RIGHTS OF CORRECTION AND REPLY AND OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES
Article 60: The rights of reply and of correction are assured to citizens, political parties,
popular organisations, ministries, government authorities and companies and may be
exercised by their representatives if the material published concerns them.
Article 61: Whenever a newspaper or a magazine publishes an article in which an individual
or a body has the right of reply under the conditions and in the circumstances set out in this
part of the law provided that there is a legitimate interest even if the article did not contain
aspersions or libels against the complainant.
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