Comments on: Newspaper Banned in Bahrain

By: Global Voices dalam bahasa Indonesia » Bahrain: Surat Kabar Dicekal Selama Satu hari

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:01:41 +0000

[...] juga tidak setuju dengan keputusan ini: Bukan karena aku mencintai Akhbar Al-Khaleej, sungguh fakta itu jauh dari kebenaran, namun kesanku [...]

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By: Hashim Al Marzooqi

Hashim Al Marzooqi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:21:04 +0000

I cant understand why would they ban a newspaper just for posting an article about the iranian leadership or even a cartoon sketch ,,, its rediculous, and what is more funny that iran leadership has claimed alot of times that bahrain belongs to iran. eventhough bahrain is a free county for more than 30 years.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH <<< where is it

all these silly issues are nothing but RAPING DEMOCRACY !!

i don't know but i have a feeling that it will be so much worse in this country… everything is going backward :S

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By: coolred38

coolred38 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:07 +0000

My friend, Maryam Al Sherooqi, writes for Al Wasat. She is just about the only Sunni that writes for that paper and all her Sunni compatriots constantly demand her to stop writing for it simply because it is primarily a Shia newspaper…but she wont stop because its the only paper at the moment that allows her the freedom to express herself without too much censorship. Of course she has found herself in quite a lot of hot water due to her writings, prosecution cases abound, heavy handed techniques, withholding of her salary from the Ministry of Education, personal threats to her safety….threats to the livelihoods of her husband and brothers etc…as well as threats of jail time….all because she dares to write about what everyone else talks about privately but dont have the balls(sorry) to express in public.

She has been told that all she has to do to make all this “go away” is to apologize for hurting some MP or anothers feelings…or is it a Minister or two…lol…she has everyone on her hit list…and to quit writing…but she refuses. She said if she apologizes…when she has done nothing wrong but express the truth…then Bahraini’s have lost again.

Funny enough, one of the Ministers she razed in an article prosecuted her (on going case) publicly…but called her privately and praised her writing ability and willingness to say such things. He claimed he is forced by his position to not accept her words without a fight…but admires her none the less for saying them…go figure.

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By: Global Voices Online » Bahrain: Newspaper Suspended For A Day

Global Voices Online » Bahrain: Newspaper Suspended For A Day — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:32:23 +0000

[...] also disagreed with the decision: Not that I love Akhbar Al-Khaleej, nothing could be more remote from the truth, but my feeling [...]

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By: Investigative journalism on 23 June 09 « The Centre for Investigative Journalism News Blog

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:28:30 +0000

[...] Mahmood’s Den : Newspaper Banned in Bahrain [...]

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:59:37 +0000

بغيته يكون لو كي!

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By: Ibn

Ibn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:33:53 +0000

ولك شو محمود؟؟ والله أنا مستغرب – رجعت البلوق؟؟ ليش ما تقل لي من قبل؟! ههههه! لا خلص معلش أنا هلأ مبسوط

- Ibn

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By: FYI

FYI — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:59:53 +0000

I just finished reading Mrs. Rajab’s article that was published yesterday 21 June 2009; covering the Iranian elections and post election events. To say the least it was very critical of the Iranian regime and the revolution. She wrote that the leaders manipulated religion to oppress and enslave its citizens.

A while back when an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader doubted Bahrain sovereignty, naturally people here were angry and shocked at how a figure representing the Iranian government could be allowed to say such things. In my opinion the same thing applies here; if Mrs. Rajab was just a journalist her article would have been justified. But as long as she’s an appointed MP in the Shura council her statement will be taken into contest as representing Bahrain.

That’s why I think the Iranian ambassador met with our FM ( http://english.bna.bh/?ID=80009 ) this afternoon to explain the situation. But to ban the newspaper from publishing for a day to just stupid. The government should have released a statement saying the Mrs. Rajab wasn’t representing the views of the government in her article.

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By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:41:39 +0000

Thanks Mahmood.
I read the story literally minutes ago on the BBC and decided to come over here to find out exactly why it happened and as always found the answer.

I find it surprising that these politicians have not yet managed to get it through their thick boned skulls that with modern communication methods their constant attempts to cover up news end in making them look ridiculous time after time.
Time they dragged their sorry butts into the new century and stopped treating people like morons.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:30:30 +0000

I do read both. Me not liking them doesn’t mean that they don’t sometimes have something worthwhile. Regardless, they both are substandard as far as journalism is concerned, both have their main reason for being is to sell as much advertising as possible at all costs. The ban and the other trouble they have come into, they came into by happenstance only and not by design, but when they do, they use the occasion to popularise their presence with the eye firmly fixed on the bottom line.

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