Sanaa, Yeman - Yemen closed down on Wednesday a second newspaper that reprinted controversial caricatures of Prophet Mohammad, an official at the information ministry said.
The official said the English-language Yemen Observer would be shut until further notice. The newspaper published the inflammatory cartoons last week, he added.
On Monday, the ministry ordered the closure of a small, Arabic language newspaper for printing the cartoons which first appeared in a Danish daily in September.
The prosecution also issued an arrest warrant for its editor-in-chief, who is also its owner, on charges of offending Islam and the Prophet.
Many Muslims consider images of the Prophet to be blasphemous. The cartoons, which showed Prophet Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, have unleashed a wave of fury, with protesters burning down the Danish embassies and calls by militant groups to attack Danish soldiers in Iraq.