I wrote a few days back about Jersey blogger Jane from Armies of Liberation who had taken up the cause of jailed Yemeni newspaper editor Abdul-Karim Al-Khaiwani. Al-Khaiwani had been sentenced to a year of hard labor after a sham trial, charged with the being editor of a paper which ran an editorial critical of the government. Jane started up an on-line petition asking for Al-Khaiwani’s freedom that got almost 700 signatures. She really put all her heart and effort into this, to the point of near exhaustion.

Well, Jane is more than happy to report that Al-Khaiwani was given amnesty today by the president of Yemen, just one day after a court upheld his original conviction. Al-Khaiwani is a free man. More stories and a picture of the free man here and here. It’s great when a story has a happy ending. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many stories like that in the news.

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