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Matt J. Duffy, PhD, teaches journalism at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. His book Media Laws of the United Arab Emirates was recently published by Wolters Kluwer. 

United Arab Emirates | Mar 5, 2013

UAE Bars Foreign Journalists From Trial

The UAE has barred foreign journalists from covering the sedition trial of 94 Emiratis accused of sedition, writes Matt Duffy.

People walk past a court in AL-Ain January 10, 2010. Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, was found innocent on Sunday of the torture and rape of an Afghan in a case that embarrassed the Gulf Arab emirate and raised questions over human rights. The judge reading the verdict at the court in the United Arab Emirates, the world's third largest oil exporter and a key U.S. ally, did not give a reason why Sheikh Issa was exonerated of responsibility for abuse shown in a video fi

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