Monday, August 15, 2011

Diplomatic crisis between Qatar, Bahrain, following a documentary film


The Bahraini government has exercised pressure on Al-Jazeera English aired in the country after August 4, 2011 a documentary film about the events of the revolution of Bahrain.After the broadcast directly launched Bahraini Foreign Minister attack on the State of Qatar and Al Jazeera in Twitter and that the son of King Hamad Sheikh Nasser between Hamad described the channel description is a decent, describing them as "channel despicable," which warned of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries led to the suspension of the channel for remodeling her documentary "Bahrain's screams in the dark" after that was the site of Al-Jazeera has posted times of re-broadcast the film in the days of Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, but these times have been omitted without giving any explanation.
The film documents the duration about 50 minutes, the events of the popular revolution in Bahrain and the subsequent brutal repression and the killings and attacks on medical staff and military control to hospitals and wounded in demonstrations, tortured by the security forces, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The said Executive Director of Al Jazeera English about the conditions of registration of this film: "I did not give free access to many things, and rejected the Bahraini authorities to give us a comment (at the time to prepare the film.) Prepared film was unable to access certain areas .. and some segments of the community refused to comment ", he said that the crew had to prevent the island many times to enter Bahrain or work.
Dominated by the Bahraini government to the media in the country, and in particular audio-visual media which Tanlma full, and there are no independent private media channel broadcast from Bahrain. The authority last September 2010 has banned the site of the Islamic National Accord Association after the announcement of its intention to launch a visual and audible information via the Internet, as well as the banned Al-Wasat newspaper reports of the broadcast audio and video on its website in the same period. The involvement of a number of activists in prison just for doing the transfer of video images to the ongoing violations in Bahrain to the media outside Bahrain and visible military tried and imprisoned many of the detainees in the campaign of recent security-related charges to speak to the media.
The last appearance of opposition critic on television Bahrain was in 2008, Ibrahim Sharif, Secretary General of the National Democratic Action Society promised (detained since March and was sentenced to five years in prison for the moment) has the right to view those ring isolation of the Minister of Information at that time Jihad Abukamal from office, and manages the affairs of the Information is currently Sheikh Fawaz Al Khalifa, who oversees the engineering exclusionary policy sectarian and non-professional Bahrain TV.
The exposed channel Pearl Bahraini opposition, which began broadcasting from London in the last month (July 17, 2011) to interference intensive sent after 4 hours of the start of the broadcast, according to a report of a telecommunication companies, the point of confusion is Bahrain, apparently to the Bahraini authorities seeking to prevent the arrival of broadcast channel to the Bahrainis, especially after the broadcast of scenes of deaths and detentions and attacks on demonstrations of current and ongoing in Bahrain, and at the same time prevent any notification is different from television, which questioned citizens and observers in novels characterized by inciting violence against the demonstrators and shipping sectarian and fabrication, falsification, which describe the murder of citizens of the demonstrators cleansing.
As well as the Bahraini authorities have to interfere with several other satellite channels to broadcast news reports on events in Bahrain in February and March, including the Iranian Al-Alam and Al-Manar TV in Lebanon. Also blocked site channel Press TV broadcast PressTv with the English, which also offered a number of talk shows and news reports about the protests in Bahrain.

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