UAE trial over Internet press freedom
Posted by Evan Fell on November 27, 2007 at 11:47 AM
An appeal court in United Arab Emirates has suspended for three years a five-month jail term against a man accused of slandering an official in an online article.
Khaled al-Asli says that he did not write the article, which was written under a pen name on the site majan.net. The case drew attention from media rights watchdogs when the site was closed by court order in August.
The owner of the site, Mohammad Rashed al-Shehhi, has faced four defamation suits and thus far has received a one year suspended jail term.
Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum, Emirati Prime Minister, said in September that journalists should not be jailed because of their work, but was not clear if this applied to online news sites.
Source: Agence France Presse Mail
The owner of the site, Mohammad Rashed al-Shehhi, has faced four defamation suits and thus far has received a one year suspended jail term.
Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum, Emirati Prime Minister, said in September that journalists should not be jailed because of their work, but was not clear if this applied to online news sites.
Source: Agence France Presse Mail
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