{"id":25591,"date":"2011-08-15T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:32","slug":"oman-officials-threaten-to-shut-down-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25591","title":{"rendered":"Oman: Officials threaten to shut down newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: Oman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/oman\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Omani<\/a> officials are threatening to shut down Al-Zaman, an independent newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2011\/08\/omani-intelligence-agency-threatens-to-shut-paper.php\">after it published\u00a0<\/a>allegations of corruption in the Ministry of Justice.\u00a0\u00a0Youssef al-Haj was interrogated for writing the articles questioning the Ministry&#8217;s decision to prevent Haroun al-Mukbeeli, a long-time civil servant, from appealing a refusal to provide him with an increase in salary and grade. He was eventually ordered to stop any protest of the decision.\u00a0Following the release of the article,\u00a0officials banned Al-Haj from\u00a0writing, and he could potentially serve time in prison. \u00a0The editor-in-chief of the paper, Ibrahim al-Ma&#8217;mari, was also interrogated by officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Omani officials are threatening to shut down Al-Zaman, an independent newspaper, after it published\u00a0allegations of corruption in the Ministry of Justice.\u00a0\u00a0Youssef al-Haj was interrogated for writing the articles questioning the Ministry&#8217;s decision to prevent Haroun al-Mukbeeli, a long-time civil servant, from appealing a refusal to provide him with an increase in salary and grade. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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],"tags":[3647,7425,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84694,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/84694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}