{"id":3749,"date":"2011-02-11T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T05:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T07:15:32","slug":"uae-media-breaks-silence-on-emiratis-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-media-analysis\/middle-east-newspapers-analysis\/uae-media-breaks-silence-on-emiratis-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Media Breaks Silence on Emirati&#8217;s Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UAE_dubai_newspapers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3758\" title=\"UAE_dubai_newspapers\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UAE_dubai_newspapers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, Al Jazeera <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/B0BD6BA1-4659-493B-99A7-CE8019BAC30F.htm\">reported<\/a> that an Emirati man had been arrested in Khor Fakkan, UAE, after giving a speech at a mosque in which he supported the protesters in Egypt. The report provides little additional information and is attributed to Emirati &#8220;sources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Until this morning, no UAE media outlet had repeated the report or followed up on it. However, on Page 8 of today&#8217;s Abu Dhabi newspaper, The National, a small item (pictured above) raises the issue. The article reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattjduffy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/National-Arrest-Story1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mattjduffy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/National-Arrest-Story1-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International yesterday urged UAE officials to disclose the status of a former school-teacher allegedly arrested for publicly expressing solidarity with demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Amnest said Hassan Mohammed Hassan al Mamadi, 52, was arrested last Friday in Khor Fakkan, in Sharjah, after allegedly coming out in support of the demonstrations in a speech during Friday prayers. The London-based human rights organization called on UAE officials to disclose the legal status of Mr al Hammadi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Officials did not comment in the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to see the report being aired in the local press. Up until now, it appeared the UAE media would just ignore the story.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the next move would be to follow up on the article. Interview Hammadi&#8217;s family, for instance. Or ask specific law enforcement officials questions about his whereabouts. But, that&#8217;s probably asking \u00a0too much journalism given the current restraints.<\/p>\n<p>Still, The National should be cheered for at least broaching the subject in their paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATT J. DUFFY: The next move would be to follow up on the article. Interview Hammadi&#8217;s family, for instance. But, that&#8217;s probably asking  too much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":3758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,187],"tags":[202,105,18300,630,104,18322,18316,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}