Judicial Harrasment of Omani Journalist Mukhtar Al Hinai
Timeline
June 16, 2022: MENA Rights Group requests the urgent intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression.
March 15, 2022: Al Hinai is summoned by the Public Prosecution Department in Muscat to be interrogated about his tweets. He is charged with criminal offences, forced to delete the tweets and placed under a travel ban.
March 9, 2022: Al Hinai posts on his twitter account that members of the government had been convicted by the Muscat court for embezzlement and forgery.