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Censorship is a policy used by governments to retain control over their people by preventing the public from viewing information considered by the republic as holding the potential to incite a rebellion. The majority of nations in the Middle East censor the media, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab ...
The Ministry of Information is responsible for overseeing Saudi media and has been called the "main agent of censorship" in the kingdom. [11] A special unit, the Management of Publications department, analyzes publications and issues "directives" to newspapers and magazines that state the way in which a given topic must be treated. [ 11 ]
General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict ...
Although both secular and Islamic censorship has existed, widespread use of the internet, physical distribution of DVDs, and so on has broadly allowed a large variety of arts and media access. Those measures have not kept Cairo from being regarded as the largest arts and media publishing hub in the Middle East. [24]
Mass media in the United Arab Emirates is subject to government control and censorship. [1] Media freedom is severely curtailed in the UAE. [2] Most UAE media is owned by the government or by groups that have ties to the government. [3] UAE law permits the government to censor content critical of the government. [3]
Freedom House (FH) Freedom of the Press report: [1] 10 is most free, 99 is least free 10 to 30 Free 31 to 60 Partly free 61 to 99 Not free — Not rated Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Press freedom index: [2] 6 is most free, 85 is least free 6.00 to 12.99 Good situation 13.00 to 24.99 Satisfactory situation 25.00 to 36.49 Noticeable problems
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Reporters Without Borders ranked Iran 176 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, [1] which ranks countries from 1 to 180 based on the level of freedom of the press. [2] Reporters Without Borders described Iran as “one of the world’s five biggest prisons for media personnel" in the 40 years since the revolution. [1]