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Bahrain’s authorities strive to muzzle and intimidate the independent channels that cover the violations in Bahrain

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Bahrain’s authorities strive to muzzle and intimidate the independent channels that cover the violations in Bahrain

Bahrain is involved in jamming and pressuring on the satellite channels covering human rights condition in Bahrain, such as Al-Jazeera English and Lulu channel.
14 August, 2011 – BCHR

Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern about the permanent campaigns by the government of Bahrain that muzzle, blur the facts and restrict publishing the information and freedom of media, which have increased in the last years and worsen since the beginning of the brutal repression campaign against the protesters last February and after imposing the state of emergency, that ended in the beginning of June 2011. The latest jamming was on lulu channel, Bahraini opposition channel broadcasting from London, also, pressuring on Al-Jazeera English to prevent re- broadcasting “Bahrain shouting in the dark”, that shows the repression campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights demands the government of Bahrain represented in the media the following:

• Stop all forms of harassment by the government on the independent media and their crews and allow them to operate and broadcast news about Bahrain.
• Cancel all procedures that would restrict flowing of information and freedom of speech and opinion.
• Release all those who were arrested because they exercise freedom of speech and to deal with the media.
• Bahrain’s government has to restrict with its international obligations and respect for all forms of freedom of expression and publication as provided in the international covenants and treaties.
• Punish all those who are responsible in spreading lies and inciting sectarian and removed them from their offices in the Information Affairs Authority and Bahrain Tv .
• Oblige to codes of ethics on the media and all the international treaties and conventions, especially the International Covenants on Civil and Political, Social and Cultural Rights.
• Give all spectrums of the society the same amount of freedom to express their views about various issues without excluding any category based on the basis of sectarian or ideological or political.

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