{"id":1337,"date":"2011-11-28T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/28\/gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:59","slug":"gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/28\/gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Bloggers Sentenced to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/736266727\/gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/736266727\/gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/EkrIbrqTIosqUl7k0AI3Sjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Today, the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates, acting as the &ldquo;State Security Court,&rdquo; sentenced five bloggers to prison time. Pioneering Emirati blogger Ahmed Mansour received the harshest sentence, three years.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/gulf_bloggers_sentenced_to_prison.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via readwriteweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Today, the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates, acting as the &ldquo;State Security Court,&rdquo; sentenced five bloggers to prison time. Pioneering Emirati blogger Ahmed Mansour received the harshest sentence, three years.Via readwriteweb.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1613,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/22\/bahrain-leading-blogger-ali-abdulemam-sentenced\/","url_meta":{"origin":1337,"position":0},"title":"Bahrain: leading blogger Ali Abdulemam sentenced to 15 years in prison, along with other human rights defenders","author":"aslam","date":"June 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesNine months after leading blogger and human rights activist Ali Abdulemam was arrested along with other political and human rights activists in Bahrain, a military court has sentenced him to 15 years in prison. 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