{"id":5208,"date":"2024-03-07T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/uae-telegraph-bid-is-a-threat-to-our-national-security\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:01:39","slug":"uae-telegraph-bid-is-a-threat-to-our-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/uae-telegraph-bid-is-a-threat-to-our-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Telegraph bid is a threat to our national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>\u2018We are a government-owned newspaper &#8230; Our writing must be informative and interesting, but we cannot afford to upset or offend anyone.\u201d \u201cOf course we would never directly criticise the Sheikhs, the government or the country, because this is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t words taken from a dystopian novel. Rather, they are the anonymous testimonies of newspaper employees working over the past few years in the United Arab Emirates. Sadly, it\u2019s a <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2024\/01\/24\/al-roeya-newspaper-uae-press-freedom-uncomfortable-question\/\">daily reality for journalists in the Gulf state<\/a>. For the UAE\u2019s laws ban any direct criticism of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/03\/07\/uae-telegraph-bid-threat-to-our-national-security\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We are a government-owned newspaper &#8230; Our writing must be informative and interesting, but we cannot afford to upset or offend anyone.\u201d \u201cOf course we would never directly criticise the Sheikhs, the government or the country, because this is illegal.\u201d These aren\u2019t words taken from a dystopian novel. Rather, they are the anonymous testimonies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,184],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}