Oman’s Ministry of Information has decided to take legal action against ‘The Week’, a tabloid distributed for free in Oman every week, for publishing a feature article on homosexuality among Omanis last week.
The publishers — Apex Press and Publishing — were asked by the ministry not to bring out this week’s issue. It is however not known if the order is for this week only or subsequent weeks also. The publishers only informed advertisers about the September 5 issue not coming out.
In a statement, carried by the government-owned Oman News Agency, the Ministry of Information stressed that while it believes in freedom of opinion and expression, that such freedom should be within the parameters of the country’s laws.
The Ministry statement said that the freedom “does not allow for the undermining of societal principles or abuse of its religion, its sensibilities, or the dignity of its people, or harming the status quo or public sensibilities by publishing what contradicts media laws and regulations and offends society, or the country”.
“Based on this, the publications committee has decided to refer the Editor-in-Chief and the writer of the article to public prosecution,” the statement says.
Sameer Al Zakwani, the brother of Publisher Saleh Zakwani, is listed in The Week as the Editor-in-Chief. The article was published without a byline.
BUT RAPING YOUNG GIRLS DOES NOT "UNDERMINE SOCIETAL PRINCIPALS,ABUSE SENSIBILITIES,OFFEND SOCIETY OR COUNTRY"
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