{"id":23874,"date":"2011-06-14T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23874"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:46:55","slug":"bahrains-government-to-sue-the-independent-for-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23874","title":{"rendered":"Bahrani government to sue the Independent for libel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain&#8217;s <a title=\"BNA: IAA to Take Legal Action against The Independent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.bh\/portal\/en\/news\/460799\" target=\"_blank\">Information Affairs Authority<\/a> today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation\u00a0case against the Independent newspaper. Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, publications director-general\u00a0said: &#8220;The Independent has deliberately published a\u00a0series of unrealistic and provocative articles targeting Bahrain and the Kingdom\u00a0of Saudi Arabia.&#8221; He claimed the newspaper, and in particular its Middle-East correspondent Robert Fisk had set out to tarnish Bahrain&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain&#8217;s Information Affairs Authority today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation\u00a0case against the Independent newspaper. Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, publications director-general\u00a0said: &#8220;The Independent has deliberately published a\u00a0series of unrealistic and provocative articles targeting Bahrain and the Kingdom\u00a0of Saudi Arabia.&#8221; He claimed the newspaper, and in particular its Middle-East correspondent Robert [&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":[584,4060,585,581],"tags":[7405,165,727,3501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874"}],"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=23874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79201,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874\/revisions\/79201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}