-- --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 22:54:44 From: World Homeless Union <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some media outlets reopen after being closed over Iraq material Associated Press, 12/19/98 14:10 JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian authorities allowed half a dozen Palestinian media outlets to reopen Saturday after closing them a day earlier over coverage of pro-Iraq rallies or for broadcasting what was deemed to be pro-Iraq material. However, two other news offices, including the Gaza City bureau of The Associated Press, remained closed. On Friday, Palestinian police detained nine journalists, including some working for foreign news organizations, who had covered pro-Iraq demonstrations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Five local Palestinian TV stations and one radio station in the West Bank were closed down, but all were given permission to reopen Saturday. One, however, refused to do so until given an explanation for being closed down in the first place. Samir Kumsia, the owner of Mahed TV in Bethlehem, said: ``They have to give me a logical explanation - until then I will stay closed. This is not a civilized manner in which to deal with us.=B4=B4 Still closed on Saturday, in addition to the Gaza City bureau of The Associated Press, was the Gaza City branch of Orbit Satellite Service, an Israeli-based agency that transmits TV footage. Earlier Saturday, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a statement that the closing of the offices and the detention of the journalists was a ``serious violation=B4=B4 of their basic rights. The syndicate said it would stage a strike as well as a a sit-in at the Palestinian legislature on Monday. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists also protested the curbs on coverage. In a letter to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, it urged Arafat to allow the offices to reopen and denounced ``attempts to silence independent journalism in flagrant violation of the right to free expression.=B4=B4 The Foreign Press Association in Israel also said it was sending a letter of protest to Arafat's Palestinian Authority. =A9 Copyright 1998 Boston Globe Electronic Publishing, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Global Homeless Network provides current homeless and related news, information and announcements for charitable research and educational purposes, pursuant to Title 17 USC =A7 107: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml HOMELESS COMMUNICATIONS CENTER: http://forums.delphi.com/m/main.asp?sigdir=3Dhomelessness HOMELESS POWWOW Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CENTRAL AMERICA RELIEF DRIVE Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------- End Forwarded Message --------- Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com
