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Samir Jubran (R), editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper al-Masdar, listens to a verdict at the end of his trial in Sanaa October 31, 2009. Samir was given a one-year's suspended prison sentence and was banned from writing for one year by the court on Saturday for publishing an article deemed as defamatory of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Another journalist, Mounir al-Mawri, who also works for the paper and was the author of the defamatory article published in May, was sentenced in absentia and given a two-year prison sentence and banned from writing for life.
