By MANDEEP SINGH , Posted on » Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A BAHRAINI journalists’ leader yesterday called for an agreement to be reached over the issue of Al Jazeera satellite channel’s activities in Bahrain.
Bahrain Journalists Association deputy chairman Faisal Abdulla Shaikh said that it was in the best interests of all that the dispute is immediately resolved.
He made the comments as a temporary ban on the channel reporting from Bahrain remained in place for the seventh day yesterday.
By MANDEEP SINGH , Posted on » Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A BAHRAINI journalists’ leader yesterday called for an agreement to be reached over the issue of Al Jazeera satellite channel’s activities in Bahrain.
Bahrain Journalists Association deputy chairman Faisal Abdulla Shaikh said that it was in the best interests of all that the dispute is immediately resolved.
He made the comments as a temporary ban on the channel reporting from Bahrain remained in place for the seventh day yesterday.
The ban was imposed on May 18 after Bahrain’s Information Ministry reported the channel had violated professional norms.
It decided to temporarily freeze the operations of its office in response to Al Jazeera’s “violation of professional norms and not abiding by the laws and rules that regulate Press and publishing”.
Mr Shaikh, who is also a leading columnist, said that he hoped all parties would sit and resolve their dispute. “Everyone in Bahrain wants the dispute to end. I hope that will happen soon.”
Meanwhile, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the decision to indefinitely suspend Al Jazeera from reporting from Bahrain.
“We are dismayed to see Bahrain attempt to muzzle the media simply because it does not like what is being reported,” CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa programme co-ordinator Mohammed Abdel Dayem said on its website. mandeep@gdn.com.bh
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