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Item 1: Freedom of expression-campaigners Article 19 have released a report on press freedom (or rather, the lack of it) in Yemen. A quote from the conclusions of the report: "For the last few years, freedom of expression and, above all of the media, has been severely curtailed and journalists have been facing ongoing repression from the authorities. They have been persecuted, imprisoned or have been physically assaulted by agents suspected to act on their behalf. These practices are facilitated by the existence of the Press and Publications Law that violates Yemen's international obligations ICCPR and criminalizes press offences. The persistence of serious threats to the life and imprisonment of journalists put into question the President's 2004 announcement to exclude the detention of media people. The severe violations of the right to freedom of speech are further compounded by a weak and often corrupt judiciary that fails to implement constitutional guarantees and redress the wrongs suffered by journalists. As a consequence of the clampdowns on their activities, many journalists have started to practice self-censorship." Female journalists are particularly targeted, with organized smear campaigns against prominent female journalists and activists regularly appearing in quasi-official newspapers. Item 2: In The Gambia, a country also criticized by press freedom watchdogs (another report from Article 19 available here, also see this and other news items from the Committee to Protect Journalists), a group of journalists and freedom of expression-activists have launched an online radio station, Radio Alternative Voice. There will also be a regular radio station, based not in The Gambia but in neighboring Senegal, and targeting Gambian diasporic communities as well as the national Gambian audience. Read more here.