Oman closes down newspaper, journalists held: Amnesty International

[WorldNews]

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 international watchdog said on Wednesday. The report came one day after the Omani government said it had taken unspecified action against a newspaper for insulting the judiciary. The Arabic-language Azamn had extensively covered a series of corruption cases in 2014 in which several company executives and company officials were convicted and jailed or fined, Amnesty International said in a statement that Azamn and its online news site were closed on Tuesday after the newspaper's Deputy Editor in Chief, Youssef al-Haj, was arrested.

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