Saudi Arabia clamps down on blogs, news sites

By Edward Attwood

• Monday, 3 January 2011

Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's most conservative state, plans to introducing a raft of new rules to clamp down on news websites and blogs operating in the kingdom.Online newspapers will need to have editors in chief that have formally been approved by the Ministry of Information and Culture (MOCI).
The rules, which will be introduced in a month’s time, will also require net newspapers, blogs and forums to be licensed by the ministry.
Applicants for those licences will need to be a Saudi national, older than 20, with high school qualifications and “documents testifying to their good behaviour”.

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