Reporters Without Borders, Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2006 - United Arab Emirates, 3 May 2006, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/46e690c1c.html [accessed 6 June 2023]
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The UAE constitution guarantees press freedom, but the content and political line of newspapers, especially Arab-language ones, is closely monitored. English-language media have more leeway. A 1988 law states topics that cannot be mentioned and journalists censor themselves in matters of domestic policy, the life of the ruling families, religion or relations with neighbouring countries. The foreign press is censored before it goes on sale.
