Those confessions were then broadcast in programs aired in June 2017 on the Abu Dhabi Channel - a news channel produced in Abu Dhabi and funded by the Abu Dhabi government. At the time of the broadcasts, relations between Qatar and the UAE (of which Abu Dhabi is a part) were at a low point. Abu Dhabi Media Company has 21 days to give its initial response. It also said of the Al-Jaidah broadcast that it “had no reason to believe that Dr Al-Jaidah had any credible complaints surrounding the footage broadcast in the programme”. ADMC told Ofcom it had not been involved in the filming of the interviews and that the footage was provided to it by a “confidential third-party source”.

Source: Forbes May 25, 2021 04:52 UTC