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Human Rights Watch Highly Critical of New UAE Media Law (Includes Link to Report)

A new draft law to regulate the news media unlawfully restricts free expression and will unduly interfere with the media’s ability to report on sensitive subjects, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The pending law also includes provisions that would grant the government virtually complete control in deciding who is allowed to work as a journalist and which media organizations are allowed to operate in the country.

The 13-page report, “Just the Good News, Please: New UAE Media Law Continues to Stifle Press,” says that the new law contains some improvement over the draconian media law currently in effect. But it will continue to punish journalists for such infractions as “disparaging” government officials or publishing “misleading” news that “harms the country’s economy.” Human Rights Watch researched the report by analyzing the provisions of the pending law as well as interviewing foreign and local journalists based in the UAE.

“The law will muzzle the press, preventing honest reporting about the country’s continuing financial crisis or about its rulers,”…SOURCE

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