Omani state crushes newspaper, sets out parameters for investigating abuses
Issue 1023
- 07 Oct 2016
| 4 minute read
The considerable power of the Omani state was brought to bear when the Court of First Instance in Muscat sentenced three journalists to prison on 26 September and ordered the permanent closure of their newspaper, Azamn (sometimes written Al-Zaman), for publishing an article that alleged corruption in the judiciary. The piece received subsequent vindication from a senior judicial official – who has also since been detained – but Azamn “violated freedom of expression” in its reports of alleged abuses by the judiciary, the government said in a statement published by the official Oman News Agency (ONA) on 10 August.
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