Today’s edition of the International New York Times was not printed in the United Arab Emirates because of an article on labor conditions in the country, jimromenesko.com reports.

According to an e-mail obtained by the website, the paper’s printing and distribution partners in the UAE deemed the edition of the paper too sensitive for local printing.

INYT just emailed subscribers to say it was not printed in #UAE bc story was "too sensitive for local printing." #pt pic.twitter.com/8jeEmEPj7c — Ben Hubbard (@NYTBen) May 20, 2014

The story in question is about New York University issuing an apology to workers on its Abu Dhabi campus after The New York Times reported on widespread abuse among the nearly 6,000 person labor force.

The article described workers being arrested, beaten and deported to their home countries after striking over pay. Recruitment fees, of approximately a year's wages, were all but required, and laborers had to work overtime, sometimes seven days a week, to earn the base pay they were promised. Not one of the dozens of workers interviewed had his own passport. Some were living in filthy, crowded apartments.

According to the Times, these types of conditions are common in the UAE and the work force is often mostly made up of poor South Asian immigrants.