Thursday, July 16, 2009

Building Democracy, Forming State Institutions, Laying the Foundation for Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Okay, so all that title was BS:-

The Palestinian Authority banned the television network Al Jazeera on Wednesday from operating in the West Bank and said it was taking legal action against it after the broadcast of accusations that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, left, had taken part in the murder of his predecessor, Yasir Arafat...The Palestinian Authority said that this was slander and incitement and that the network would be banned until a court ruled in the case.

There has long been tension between the Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, because of accusations that it has favored Hamas in its reporting...

..The network’s bureau chief in Ramallah, Walid al-Omari, accused the authorities of “a severe violation of freedom of expression.”

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