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Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:
On Monday morning, the Lebanese MTV team was shocked to be barred from the Baabda Republican Palace, in a dangerous precedent that contradicts public liberties. The ban came in the context of the Christian-style station that was harshly criticizing the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, after the massive explosion in the port of Beirut, which caused half the destruction. The capital, and name it in honor of Mr. Michel Aoun, not the president.
Journalist Nakhla Adimi commented that he and the photographer were prevented from entering the palace, arresting him at the Republican Guard Brigade checkpoint and asking him to return, for which he wrote in his account: “After they prevented us from entering to the Republican Palace, he promised that one day we will return to the People’s Palace.
The ban seized the comments of activists on social networks and many media professionals who were surprised by such a decision, and their memory returned to the years 1988 and 1989 when General Aoun, who was head of the military government, prevented that the newspapers published in the eastern regions at that time used the expression of President Elias Hrawi with pain. Suspend your release.
Commenting on the ban on the MTV station, the resigned deputy Paula Yacoubian described this step as “an additional lapse to the pact by invading the last sector that breathes in the country, which is the media sector”, considered “a culmination without precedents of a downward path “and asked:” Where is the president who is inclusive and not separate? ” This is strange behavior and does not look like a person who represents the symbol and unity of the nation.
In a precedent that conflicts with public liberties and represents a further failure of the Covenant and its downward path
When he participated in the parliamentary consultations in Baabda, the secretary general of the Nasserite People’s Organization, Representative Osama Saad, raised the question, “Where is MTV? We regret and condemn “the restriction on the media.”
Progressive Socialist Party media commissioner Saleh Hudayfah commented on the ban on his Twitter account, writing: “Whoever talks about the development of the system, the right to citizenship and the civic status of the state, he himself cannot avoid that the media fulfill their role. It is very shameful that this happens from the place entrusted by the constitution at the time of reliving the centenary of Greater Lebanon, which was based on freedom and diversity above all else. He concluded: “On the centenary of Greater Lebanon, which was founded on freedom, it is shameful to prevent the media from fulfilling the role that has been entrusted to them by the constitution.”
Activist Clovis Choueifati listed comments on Baabda’s decision, saying: “If current MTV clips, it means that the presidency of the republic is also required! … and if they were prevented from entering the palace in response to criticizing the pact, I mean, it is not necessary to enter the palace during consultations, that is, to attack the president while Hani Katar … whatever the situation is unacceptable , is not acceptable to the media … and the media must take a position on anyone who works as a stick-breaker and limits freedom and activism … and if any journalist or any state station makes a mistake, they is behaving in a malicious way, but is resorting to the judiciary, a means that gives value and prestige to the institutions and achieves justice … it is necessary that His Excellency intervene and not allow any behavior of a militia in minors and file a lawsuit against MTV or is filing a lawsuit against the presidency because it was insulted ….
Charles Khoury pointed out that “the repressive security and intelligence regime continued, all until its disappearance.” Shaw said: I am General Michel Aoun, how we know him well, and every day I am more certain that he will not separate anything from the Baath regime.
And Rola Al-Shaar considered “an honor for MTV to be prevented from entering the palace of lies, betrayal and laughter of the people, this is the era of humiliation and fornication.”
“Isn’t it Asas, is it with everyone?” Asked Chantal Chakhtoura. Albi Shhta and Ladoo de Beto ?? With slogans is something and the truth is something else ”.
Rola Farraj said: “What are Jounieh of their roaring seas? So that everyone knows that everyone has grown by my side except the oranges.
The “Media Professionals for Freedom” initiative issued the following statement: “Preventing the MTV team from covering the proceedings of the parliamentary consultations in the Republican Palace is the other side of bankruptcy, heartbreak and piracy without precedents. The Republican Palace will record that it violated a constitutional principle that guarantees public and media freedoms. MTV will also be recorded as putting a finger in a deep wound inflicted by the government system on the body of Lebanon.
After the uproar caused by Baabda’s decision, the Office of Information of the Presidency of the Republic issued a statement explaining what happened, saying: “For some time, MTV has been attacking the President of the Republic, transcending the principles and ethics professional, and the matter got to the point of dismissing the President of the Republic and being satisfied with his name without his title. And it continued to persist in the station’s newscasts to the point of insulting, insulting and making inappropriate slander against the president of the state, pointing out that all these violations are sanctioned by the laws and regulations in force, in addition to the audiovisual media law that allows the station to be closed when the violation is repeated.
He added that “several attempts were made with the station to improperly reconsider to no avail, forcing us to apologize for not allowing this station to cover the activities of the Baabda Palace, as long as it does not value and respect the head of state to the point of not recognizing his presidential capacity. “
The statement continued: “Despite all the offenses, the media office did not conceal news about the presidency of the MTV station, and the action taken against him could not be considered a violation of press freedom, that the presidency is willing to defend and practice without restrictions, with the exception of what is stipulated in the laws and regulations “.
