{"id":18169,"date":"2010-11-29T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:35","slug":"uae-news-website-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=18169","title":{"rendered":"UAE: News website shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emirates Local News website (http:\/\/localnewsuae.com), which translates and posts all news about the UAE from around the world, <a title=\"IFEX: Independent news site blocked less than a year after its launch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/united_arab_emirates\/2010\/11\/24\/website_censored\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been blocked<\/a> within the UAE. The ban came 10 days before the site&#8217;s first anniversary and the government have offered no reason for the decision. Visitors to the site will find only an announcement that the site has been &#8220;banned as per the regulations of the Internet access department in the UAE&#8221;. This follows the closing of the alHewar alEmirati forum at the start of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emirates Local News website (http:\/\/localnewsuae.com), which translates and posts all news about the UAE from around the world, has been blocked within the UAE. The ban came 10 days before the site&#8217;s first anniversary and the government have offered no reason for the decision. Visitors to the site will find only an announcement that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585,581],"tags":[211,1558],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18277,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}