b) have a degree from a college or institute and not less than two years’ experience in
journalism, or
c) have the general secondary school graduation certificate or its equivalent and at least five
years’ experience in journalism, or
d) have sufficient experience in journalism of at least 10 years.
e) the design of the Press Card, the data on it and the rules for issue, renewal, withdrawal
and cancellation shall be laid down by the Ministry of information.
Article 11: Holders of Press Cards shall enjoy all the facilities and privileges provided by the
authorities to journalists in accordance with a decision of the Cabinet.
Article 12: Subject to the provisions of Article 10 of this law, applications for the issue of a
Press Card shall be made to the Ministry of Information supported by the necessary
documents. If a justified refusal is given or no answer has been received within 30 days, the
applicant has the right to appeal to the courts within 30 days of receipt of the refusal or of the
passage of thirty days since the application with no response.
PART TWO: RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF JOURNALISTS
Article 13: A journalist may not be interrogated on opinions which he has expressed or
published, and which may not be used to inflict harm on him/her provided what he/she
published is not contrary to the law.
Article 14: A journalist has the right to obtain information, news, data and statistics from their
sources and to publish or not publish them. He has the right to preserve the confidentiality of
his/her sources he/she can not be forced to disclose in accordance with the provisions of this
law.
Article 15: A journalist has the right to refuse to prepare or to write press material which is in
conflict with his/her beliefs or views or offends his conscience as a journalist. He has the right
to comment as he/she sees fit within the provisions and principles of the Constitution in order
to explain his/her opinions and express his/her point of view regardless of differences in
opinion or intellectual judgement.
Article 16: A journalist has the right to peruse official reports, facts, information and data, and
authorities possessing such items shall make it possible for him/her to have cognisance of
and to use from them.
Article 17:
a) A journalist shall have the right to be correspondent for one or more Yemeni or foreign
press bodies provided that he/she obtains a licence from the Ministry of Information
renewable every two years.
b) A journalist has the right to cover any local, Arab or international event regardless of the
nature of relations which link Yemen with the country in which that event occurs.
Article 18: A journalist shall not be dismissed or transferred to work other than journalism,
suspended from working, prevented from writing of held to account for his articles, except as
provided for in this law and regulations and bylaws.
Article 19: A journalist may protect his/her rights through his/her union and by the legal
means provided for and guaranteed by the law and the Constitution or he/she may have
direct recourse to the courts according to the laws.
Article 20: In what he/she publishes, a journalist shall respect the objectives and aims of the
Yemeni Revolution and the provisions of the Constitution and shall not contravene this law.
PART THREE: TERMS OF WORK FOR ARAB AND FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
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