{"id":28806,"date":"2019-01-12T03:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28806"},"modified":"2019-01-12T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:23:35","slug":"arrest-ordered-after-emirati-forced-caged-asian-workers-to-cheer-for-uae-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28806","title":{"rendered":"Arrest ordered after Emirati forced caged Asian workers to cheer for UAE football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arrest ordered after Emirati forced caged Asian workers to cheer for UAE football team<\/h2>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1434086\/middle-east\" readability=\"55\">\n<p>\nABU DHABI: The UAE\u2019s Attorney General ordered the arrest of a man who posted a video on social media showing him forcing a group of Asian employees to cheer for the UAE national football team ahead of their Asian Cup encounter with India.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who are employees of the Emirati citizen seen in the video, are in a chicken wire fenced cage and being urged to switch allegiances and cheer for the UAE national team over India. When they do as ordered, they are then released from the cage.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe\u00a0Attorney General said the arrest order was issued, \u201cgiven that such conduct is deemed illegal in the UAE and against the\u00a0country\u2019s values of tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/01\/11\/1427121-679994311.jpeg\" width=\"450\"><figcaption>\nA screen grab of the Emirati citizen urging his employees to cheer for the UAE. (Social Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe person who filmed and posted the video has been apprehended and referred to \u201cthe Public Prosecution for investigation,\u201d Sharjah Police Headquarters said.<\/p>\n<p>\nSharjah Police also said that the behavior shown in the video is contrary to the \u201ccustoms and traditions\u201d of UAE citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\nSharjah police urged all members of society to familiarise themselves with laws relating to social media use so that they are not disciplined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest ordered after Emirati forced caged Asian workers to cheer for UAE football team ABU DHABI: The UAE\u2019s Attorney General ordered the arrest of a man who posted a video on social media showing him forcing a group of Asian employees to cheer for the UAE national football team ahead of their Asian Cup encounter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}