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TMCNet: Egypt - Nilesat drops London-based satellite TV station Al-Hiwar

[April 03, 2008]

Egypt - Nilesat drops London-based satellite TV station Al-Hiwar

(Canada Newswire English Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Attention News Editors

MONTREAL, April 3 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders condemns the partially state-owned satellite operator Nilesat's decision to stop carrying the signal of the privately-owned London-based TV station Al-Hiwar on 1 April, without any explanation. The move comes less than two months after Arab League members adopted a charter aimed at controlling satellite TV content.


"Nilesat's decision confirms the fears we expressed when Arab League members signed a media charter," the press freedom organisation said. "The threat has been carried out and we now fear a wave of censorship measures against satellite TV stations that criticise Arab governments. This was an arbitrary decision against which Al-Hiwar was unable to defend itself or lodge an appeal."

Nilesat refused to give Al-Hiwar's executives any explanation for the decision to stop carrying its programming. Al-Hiwar managing editor Azzam Al-Tamimi said, "We are an independent media and we have always spoken out with complete freedom." He added that he thought the decision had been taken "at the highest level" in Egypt.

This censorship measure coincided with harsh criticism of satellite TV stations by President Mubarak's son, Jamal Mubarak, who talked of "one-sided stations trying to harm Egypt."

Egypt was ranked 146th out of 169 countries in the latest Reporters Without Borders world press freedom index. Click here (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25429) to read the chapter on Egypt in this year's annual report on press freedom worldwide, which Reporters Without Borders issued on 13 February.

On the same subject:

-13.02.2008: Arab League adopts strict rules for satellite TV stations (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25725).

H?l?ne Fargues, Reporters Without Borders Canada, (514) 521-4111

Copyright ? 2008 Canada Newswire Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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