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United Arab Emirates: Banned Blogs

Written byPaul Frankenstein
Posted 20 July 2005 18:07 GMT

Yesterday, we posted a link that said that Secret Dubai Diary was the first blog to be banned in the UAE. As pointed out by Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al-Yousif in the comments, we were wrong; the Arabic-language blog The Land of Sands was the first to be banned in the Emirates.

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