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Jerusalem, November 17, 1999
Severe
violations of freedom of press in the Palestinian autonomous
areas - journalists arrested and tortured.
Journalist Maher
al-Dasouqi, was arrested by the Palestinian Preventive
Security on September 15 1999 and kept in prison for 20
days, because a guest on his TV-program “Space for an
Opinion” denounced Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.
After his
release Al-Dasouqi reports that he was tortured
(blindfolded, beaten, forced to sit in painful positions),
and also that he witnessed other prisoners being tortured.
A new report
from the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG),
“Media in Palestine: Between the PNA’s Hammer and the Anvil
of Self-Censorship” is now available in English (available
in print or by e-mail as attachment). PICTURE AVAILABLE of
demonstrating journalists in Gaza.
The report gives
a chronologically overview of violations and abuses
committed by the Palestinian Security Services against
journalists in the period 1994-1999.
The report
investigates the written press, private radio and TV
stations. It discusses the different types of censorship
imposed on the Palestinian media. The Palestinian
journalists suffer from five types of censorship; Israeli
censorship, Palestinian censorship, tribal censorship,
advertising companies’ censorship, and self-censorship.
The report
consists of 36 pages.
For
more information and to get the report (by e-mail or by
mail), please contact PHRMG, e-mail:
admin@phrmg.org, Fax: 972 2
6262378, Tel: 972 2 6262463
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