Monday, 15 March 2010
Yemen bureau chief of Al Jazeera television Murad Hashim (L) addresses a sit-in beside Yemen bureau chief of Al Arabiya, Hamoud Munassar, in Sanaa March 13, 2010. The sit-in was held to protest the seizure by Yemeni authorities of broadcasting equipment belonging to Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and Saudi-owned channel Al Arabiya from their Sanaa bureaux. A government official told state media that the two pan-Arab news channels did not have proper authorisation for the equipment seized, and that it would be returned to them eventually. The channels claim that the seizure was because of their coverage of the growing unrest in Yemen's south. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya have broadcast equipment removed over coverage
Yemeni authorities seized broadcasting equipment from the offices of two pan-Arab broadcasters on Thursday 11 March over accusations of exaggerated news coverage of the protest movement in southern Yemen.
According to the Yemeni national news agency, Saba, an official source in the Ministry of Information claims the satellite broadcasting equipment of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya satellite channels – two of the most widely-watched TV stations in the Middle East – were not authorised by ...
