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Excerpt from an article from "Alquds Alarabi", a London-based Arabic newspaper, about a report on freedom of the press in Jordan...
Google-translated from Arabic:
Can not documented and editors exercising control and storytelling and invoke professional
May 9, 2007
Oman Arab from Jerusalem Tariq FAYED: Report monitoring the situation of media freedoms in Jordan for 2006 which was recently issued by the Center for the protection of journalists and freedom of violations of the journalists and media institutions.
The report also pointed out that the beginning of the violations can not be detected simply because the majority of journalists in the country are carried out by Alamadiaqat and violations prosecuted.
According to the report the goings stories prior censorship on newspapers and weekly specifically broadcast satellite scenario for their day in the Jordanian arena to hear from editors and reporters, but could not documented either the unwillingness of those in the talk so as not to face bigger problems, or because the hidden control orders could not be substantiated, it camouflaged by technical reasons and not government or security, as the chief editor of Al-Majd weekly Fahd Alerimaoui that all preparation organ subject to prior censorship.
Also speaking journalists in this report prior censorship exercised by editors in response to pressure government, security and advertising and service of personal interests, but wearing a veneer of professional oversight and editors often deny that and think that what they are doing professional work.
The year 2006 saw many violations in Jordan and in various forms, including journalists beaten and assaulted them, as well as summonses and prevent articles and the confiscation of tools for photographers, and the threat of fines and other practices that narrow area of freedom of the media.
As happened in the same year controversy over the Press and Publication, which got the attention of the press because he was the law of the row between the journalist and media on one hand and the parliament and the government on the other hand, the text on the arrest and perpetrators of crimes against journalists by the Press and Publication and transfer of a number of journalists for the Eradication For the disciplinary boards.
The team of observers to the legislative situation is a major cause of the violations particularly over the issue of the right of access to information in the absence of parameters and criteria under the slogan of protecting state secrets and documents, according to the report, which monitored 31 cases of violation of many different certificates journalists who have been subjected to violations, where the correspondent channel Abu Dhabi space in Amman Nasser severe that he had received a number of telephone threats by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, the president Vet Jordanians after the channel broadcast a report on the avian flu last year and said they will work to spare for their livelihood.
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http://tinyurl.com/2tl5hz
Google-translated from Arabic:
Can not documented and editors exercising control and storytelling and invoke professional
May 9, 2007
Oman Arab from Jerusalem Tariq FAYED: Report monitoring the situation of media freedoms in Jordan for 2006 which was recently issued by the Center for the protection of journalists and freedom of violations of the journalists and media institutions.
The report also pointed out that the beginning of the violations can not be detected simply because the majority of journalists in the country are carried out by Alamadiaqat and violations prosecuted.
According to the report the goings stories prior censorship on newspapers and weekly specifically broadcast satellite scenario for their day in the Jordanian arena to hear from editors and reporters, but could not documented either the unwillingness of those in the talk so as not to face bigger problems, or because the hidden control orders could not be substantiated, it camouflaged by technical reasons and not government or security, as the chief editor of Al-Majd weekly Fahd Alerimaoui that all preparation organ subject to prior censorship.
Also speaking journalists in this report prior censorship exercised by editors in response to pressure government, security and advertising and service of personal interests, but wearing a veneer of professional oversight and editors often deny that and think that what they are doing professional work.
The year 2006 saw many violations in Jordan and in various forms, including journalists beaten and assaulted them, as well as summonses and prevent articles and the confiscation of tools for photographers, and the threat of fines and other practices that narrow area of freedom of the media.
As happened in the same year controversy over the Press and Publication, which got the attention of the press because he was the law of the row between the journalist and media on one hand and the parliament and the government on the other hand, the text on the arrest and perpetrators of crimes against journalists by the Press and Publication and transfer of a number of journalists for the Eradication For the disciplinary boards.
The team of observers to the legislative situation is a major cause of the violations particularly over the issue of the right of access to information in the absence of parameters and criteria under the slogan of protecting state secrets and documents, according to the report, which monitored 31 cases of violation of many different certificates journalists who have been subjected to violations, where the correspondent channel Abu Dhabi space in Amman Nasser severe that he had received a number of telephone threats by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, the president Vet Jordanians after the channel broadcast a report on the avian flu last year and said they will work to spare for their livelihood.
(...)
http://tinyurl.com/2tl5hz