{"id":1856,"date":"2003-12-19T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/19\/these-are-our-allies-teddy-bears-banne"},"modified":"2003-12-19T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T16:50:26","slug":"these-are-our-allies-teddy-bears-banned-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/19\/these-are-our-allies-teddy-bears-banned-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"These are Our Allies? Teddy Bears Banned in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2087'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"410\" height=\"278\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Teddd.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\">Saudi<br \/>\n        Arabia has banned the importation of female dolls and teddy bears, giving<br \/>\n        merchants three months to dispose of such stock, a state-guided<br \/>\n        newspaper reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>        Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered the ban which was relayed around<br \/>\n        the country by the national Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Al-Riyadh<br \/>\n        said<\/p>\n<p>The ban singled out stuffed-animal toys and dolls of brides. It made<br \/>\n        no mention of male dolls and it was not clear if these were banned as<br \/>\n      well.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull&amp;cid=1071634102435&amp;p=1008596981749\">the<br \/>\n      Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has banned the importation of female dolls and teddy bears, giving merchants three months to dispose of such stock, a state-guided newspaper reported Wednesday. Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered the ban which was relayed around the country by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/19\/these-are-our-allies-teddy-bears-banned-in-saudi-arabia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}