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Update 3: Update 3: Yemeni security forces attacked al Ayyam again at 2:49 am Tuesday morning. The attack is in progress with Yemeni security forces firing live rounds and tear gas at the compound which houses the newpaper headquarters and residence of the editors.

Update 2: Reporters without Borders, Army machine guns protestors outside newspaper office amidst growing clampdown

Update from Aden Gulf Net: Northern occupation forces cracked down on Monday afternoon, as some 500 people were in the sit-in in solidarity with the newspaper al-Ayyam. They were forcibly stopped by the Ministry of Information, as the security forces began killing people who were shot dead by security forces, according to witnesses and spokesmen for al Ayyam.

On Monday, civil society organizations in Aden held a sit-in in front of Al-Ayyam Newspaper's building in Aden, Yemen that began at 3:00pm. Around 4:00pm, central security forces arrived and began to attempt to disperse the pro-freedom of the press demonstration. Within several minutes, the soldiers opened fire at the compound with live rounds. The shooting lasted for 30 minutes. None of the protesters or those within the building's compound fired back.

The security forces announced one person was killed and two injured.

By 10 pm this evening, the military was laying siege to the newspaper's compound and cut off all roads leading to the district of Crater. Soldiers have started to station on top of nearby buildings.

The newspaper hasn't published since May, when it was banned for reporting on anti-government protests in southern Yemen. Its delivery trucks were attacked and copies of the paper burned. Several of al Ayyam's journalists have been brought up on charges of "undermining unity" by reporting on the civil unrest in the south. Yemeni President Saleh is largely reviled in southern Yemen as a tyrant and a thief. Some southerners consider their lands illegally occupied by the Saleh regime after 1994's civil war.

One of the most respected and long established independent news papers in Yemen, al Ayyam recently won the ACE Freedom of the Press Award, which noted in its award:

“The Al Ayyam newspaper has shown enormous commitment and bravery by covering sensitive stories despite paying a high price for being out spoken in Yemen, one of the World’s most closed countries. Created in 1958, Al-Ayyam is one of Yemen’s leading dailies. It has no political affiliation but, with headquarters in the southern city of Aden, it acts as a mouthpiece of the inhabitants of the poor southern provinces and has provided extensive coverage of the social unrest in the south in recent months."