Demand for Qatar to tighten down al-Jazeera “unacceptable” – UN
The trademark of Al Jazeera Media Network is seen on a domicile building in Doha, Qatar Jun 8, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
GENEVA: A direct by Saudi Arabia and 3 other Arab nations for Qatar to tighten down a al-Jazeera TV channel is an “unacceptable attack” on a right to freedoms of countenance and opinion, a United Nations tellurian rights arch pronounced on Friday.
Saudi Arabia, a United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a protest on Qatar 3 weeks ago, accusing it of subsidy militants, afterwards released an ultimatum, including final it tighten down a Turkish troops bottom in Doha, shutting Al Jazeera and curbing ties with Iran.
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UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein is “extremely endangered by a direct that Qatar tighten down a Al Jazeera network, as good as other dependent media outlets”, his orator Rupert Colville told a news briefing.
“Whether or not we watch it, like it, or determine with a editorial standpoints, Al Jazeera’s Arabic and English channels are legitimate, and have many millions of viewers. The direct that they be summarily sealed down is, in a view, an unsuitable conflict on a right to leisure of countenance and opinion,” Colville said.
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