{"id":33704,"date":"2012-03-07T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33704"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:36:55","slug":"kuwait-daily-newspaper-suspended-for-creating-sectarian-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33704","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait: Daily newspaper suspended for &#8220;creating sectarian strife&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of a privately owned newspaper in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Kuwait\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Kuwait\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"IFEX: Daily suspended for &quot;creating sectarian strife&quot; \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/kuwait\/2012\/03\/06\/aldar_suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been\u00a0extended<\/a> for the second time. Daily paper\u00a0Al-Dar was suspended in an emergency session on 2 February after authorities accused the paper of violating the Press and Publications Law by &#8220;undermining national unity&#8221; and &#8220;creating sectarian strife&#8221;. The accusations followed the publication in January of three\u00a0articles defending the country&#8217;s Shiite minority.\u00a0Kuwait&#8217;s Press Court extended the ban on Monday\u00a0until at least 12 March when the court will meet again.\u00a0Abdul Hussein al-Sultan, Al-Dar&#8217;s editor-in-chief believes\u00a0the paper was suspended to prevent coverage of the February 2 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of a privately owned newspaper in Kuwait\u00a0has been\u00a0extended for the second time. Daily paper\u00a0Al-Dar was suspended in an emergency session on 2 February after authorities accused the paper of violating the Press and Publications Law by &#8220;undermining national unity&#8221; and &#8220;creating sectarian strife&#8221;. The accusations followed the publication in January of three\u00a0articles defending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[4387,346,1958,4388,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33704"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33725,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33704\/revisions\/33725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}