United Arab Emirates - Ten months in jail for tweets, new threat to freedom of information

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Reporters Without Borders condemns the 10-month jail sentence that an Abu Dhabi court passed yesterday on the netizen Abdullah Al-Hadidi for tweeting details of the trial of 94 alleged government opponents from the courtoom “in bad faith.” Observers and foreign media are not being all owed to attend the trial of the 94 alleged dissidents, who are charged endangering the country's security. Hadidi, who was able to attend the fourth hearing on 19 March as the son of one of (...)

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