[Media-watch] Fwd: Al Jazeera Halts Work In Iraq

[Chris Keene]

Al Jazeera Halts Work In Iraq 

From: Janice <janice_g _-at-_ free.net.nz>
To: mai-not _-at-_ flora.org
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:37:06 +1200


News.com/Agence France Presse, 3 April 2003

http://www.mwaw.org/print.php?sid=2379

The Al-Jazeera satellite TV service is suspending the work of its 
journalists in Iraq after authorities banned one correspondent from 
working and asked another to leave.

The station said it "regrets this surprising and unjustified stand", and 
would continue with a minimum service, airing pictures from its offices 
in Baghdad, the southern city of Basra and the northern town of Mosul.

The Qatar-based station said today it had "decided to suspend, until 
further notice, the work of all its correspondents in Iraq".

The Iraqi information ministry informed its office in Baghdad of the ban 
on Baghdad-based correspondent Diyar al-Umari and the request for 
Tayseer Alluni to leave the country "as soon as possible".

The station, said it "regrets this surprising and unjustified stand" and 
would continue with a minimum service, airing pictures from its offices 
in Baghdad, the southern city of Basra and the northern town of Mosul.

Al-Jazeera said the Iraqi information ministry had given no explanation 
for its move.

US officials have criticised Al-Jazeera for allegedly presenting a 
one-sided version of the war and for airing pictures of coalition dead 
and prisoners of war. [SC]

This article originally appeared on the /news.com.au 
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6231146%255E25778,00.html>/ 
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