"The UAE's Federal Supreme Court upheld on July 1 a November 2008 defamation conviction
issued by an appeals court in
Abu Dhabi. The ruling called for the suspension of the Arabic-language daily
Al-Emarat Al-Youm for 20 days and the fining of editor-in-chief Sami Al-Reyami and Abdullatif Al-Sayegh,
the chief executive of the newspaper's publisher, the Arab Media Goup, to 20,000 UAE dirhams (US$5,400) each, according to local news reports. The court ruling cannot be appealed. The suspension took effect as of Sunday, according to local press
reports." (thanks Mariwan)