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June 16, 2012
Hisham Bashraheel, the owner of
Yemen's now-banned pro-southern autonomy daily newspaper Al-Ayyam, died on
Saturday in Berlin at the age of 69, his brother said.
"I have lost my brother, a
pioneer of the press in Yemen," Tamman Bashraheel told AFP. "He died
this morning after being ill for some time."
Aden-based mass-circulation
Al-Ayyam was banned by the former regime of president Ali Abdullah Saleh in
January 2009. The paper espoused the separatist cause of separation from the
north. Until 1990, South Yemen was a separate state.
After armed clashes outside the
Al-Ayyam building in the southern port city, Hisham Bashraheel was arrested in
January 2010 and prosecuted for setting up an armed group and for the murder of
a policeman.
He was freed after three months
and allowed several weeks ago to travel to Germany for medical treatment.
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