Following the publication of an article in Azamn alleging that the chairman of the Omani Supreme Court had interfered in a verdict, Omani authorities arrested Ibrahim al-Ma’mari, the editor-in-chief, ...

10-November-2016 - OMAN: Case against “Azamn” journalists must be overturned on appeal, says coalition of rights groups, as verdict expected on 17 November On 7 November 2016, the Omani Appeal Court ...

The continuing prosecution and trial of three “Azamn” journalists in Oman has been marked by procedural flaws and the abuse of punitive press laws, according to a final Trial Observation Report ...

(Beirut) – Omani police have arrested two journalists over a July 26, 2016 article that criticized the country’s judiciary. Ibrahim al-Ma’mari, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Azamn, was arrested ...

Oman has suspended a privately owned newspaper from publishing after it published articles alleging corruption in the country’s judiciary. The website of daily newspaper Azamn now displays a holding ...

An appeals court on Monday lifted a ban on Azamn newspaper which was forced to close in August after it published an article alleging government corruption, the paper's lawyer said. The court also ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Omani authorities have closed down a privately owned newspaper after detaining three of its journalists over its reporting on alleged corruption within the judiciary, an ...

MUSCAT (Reuters) - A court in Oman on Monday ordered the permanent closure of a newspaper which had reported on alleged corruption within the judiciary, and jailed three of its journalists on charges ...

The Supreme Court of Oman issued a final ruling on the closure of Azamn, ending the paper's fight to reopen and shuttering it permanently. Azamn is regarded as an independent newspaper characterised ...

The three arrests of Azamn journalists are not isolated incidents. The Government of Oman has been recently stifling expressions of free press and free speech. The following statement was originally ...

An appeals court on Monday lifted a ban on Azamn newspaper which was forced to close in August after it published an article alleging government corruption, the paper's lawyer said. The court also ...

Oman has suspended a privately owned newspaper from publishing after it published articles alleging corruption in the country’s judiciary. The website of daily newspaper Azamn now displays a holding ...