Muscat: An Omani court on Monday upheld a government order to permanently close a national newspaper and jailed three of its journalists for undermining the state, judicial sources said.
Ebrahim Al Mamari, editor-in-chief, Yousuf Al Haj, editor, and Zahir Al Abri, reporter, were held in detention for more than a month before the trial after the daily published reports in July that alleged corruption in the country’s judicial system.