{"id":33593,"date":"2012-03-02T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33593"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:40:46","slug":"uae-man-faces-jail-time-after-tweeting-insults-to-public-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33593","title":{"rendered":"UAE man faces jail time after tweeting insults to public official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old <a title=\"Index: UAE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/UAE\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emirati<\/a> man\u00a0<a title=\"Bikya Masr: UAE man faces jail for tweeting insult to public official\" href=\"http:\/\/bikyamasr.com\/59809\/uae-man-faces-jail-for-tweeting-insult-to-public-official\/\" target=\"_blank\">faces<\/a> up to three years in prison or a fine of 30,000 AED (\u00a35,122) for tweeting insults to a public official. The man reportedly sent messages &#8220;using foul language&#8221; to Police Chief Lieutenant General\u00a0Dahi Khalfan Tamim, and in court <a title=\"Khaleej Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data\/theuae\/2012\/March\/theuae_March12.xml&amp;section=theuae&amp;col=\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a> insulting the official, claiming that his comments were actually aimed at Tamim&#8217;s cronies. Tamim filed the case against the man after he reportedly tweeted insults at him for a second time.\u00a0His case has now been adjourned to 11 March\u00a0after his request for bail\u00a0was rejected by a judge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old Emirati man\u00a0faces up to three years in prison or a fine of 30,000 AED (\u00a35,122) for tweeting insults to a public official. The man reportedly sent messages &#8220;using foul language&#8221; to Police Chief Lieutenant General\u00a0Dahi Khalfan Tamim, and in court denied insulting the official, claiming that his comments were actually aimed at Tamim&#8217;s [&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],"tags":[3927,700,1558],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593"}],"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=33593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33624,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions\/33624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}