{
  "id": 17040687,
  "title": "Dubai tenants: Can landlords cut AC or essential services during a dispute?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/dubai-tenants-can-landlords-cut-ac-or-essential-services-during-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T08:46:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/living-in-uae/housing/dubai-tenants-can-landlords-cut-ac-or-essential-services-during-a-dispute-1.500728079"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dubai: Can a landlord disconnect your air conditioning (AC) , electricity or water supply if you have unpaid rent or are involved in a rental dispute? Under Dubai's tenancy law , landlords are prohibited from disconnecting essential services or interfering with a tenant's use of a property, even when there is an ongoing disagreement. Article 34 of Dubai Law No. 26 of 2007, which regulates the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}