Screening of Security News
Screening of Security News
Meanwhile the PNA has decided to screen news related to its security efforts.
Palestinian Deputy Minister of Information Ahmad Suboh said the ministry was against a ban by the PNA Interior Ministry on Saturday on the publication of any news related to its security forces by local, Arab and international news organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Amid rising lawlessness the PNA Interior Ministry on Friday ordered journalists in the West Bank and Gaza not to publish news about its security forces without advance permission, an Interior Ministry statement said.
“We would like to note to all local, Arab and international (media) that it is completely forbidden to publish any text, radio or television broadcast in relation to police and security forces without informing the media office of the Ministry of the Interior and National Security,” the statement said.
The statement said journalists would have to fill out special forms before they could publish reports involving security forces. The interior ministry said its move followed publication of news reports and photos that were “harmful to national security,” but did not specify what the objectionable reports contained.
Not only the PNA Information Ministry, but also Palestinian al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and other rights groups and anti-occupation factions protested the move.
Israel also requires journalists to abide by censorship law when reporting on security matters, but tends only to enforce this in areas of particular sensitivity such as the deaths of Israeli soldiers, nuclear issues and advanced weaponry.
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Meanwhile the PNA has decided to screen news related to its security efforts.
Palestinian Deputy Minister of Information Ahmad Suboh said the ministry was against a ban by the PNA Interior Ministry on Saturday on the publication of any news related to its security forces by local, Arab and international news organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Amid rising lawlessness the PNA Interior Ministry on Friday ordered journalists in the West Bank and Gaza not to publish news about its security forces without advance permission, an Interior Ministry statement said.
“We would like to note to all local, Arab and international (media) that it is completely forbidden to publish any text, radio or television broadcast in relation to police and security forces without informing the media office of the Ministry of the Interior and National Security,” the statement said.
The statement said journalists would have to fill out special forms before they could publish reports involving security forces. The interior ministry said its move followed publication of news reports and photos that were “harmful to national security,” but did not specify what the objectionable reports contained.
Not only the PNA Information Ministry, but also Palestinian al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and other rights groups and anti-occupation factions protested the move.
Israel also requires journalists to abide by censorship law when reporting on security matters, but tends only to enforce this in areas of particular sensitivity such as the deaths of Israeli soldiers, nuclear issues and advanced weaponry.
To see the wholle article click here
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