(RSF/IFEX) – In a 29 June 1999 letter to President Hafez Al-Assad, RSF protested against the Syrian Information Ministry’s banning, on 29 June, of the London-based Palestinian daily from entering the country. RSF asked President Al-Assad “to allow Al-Quds Al-Arabi into Syria, in order to favour press freedom.” According to information gathered by RSF, this […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a 29 June 1999 letter to President Hafez Al-Assad, RSF
protested against the Syrian Information Ministry’s banning, on 29 June, of
the London-based Palestinian daily from entering the country. RSF asked
President Al-Assad “to allow Al-Quds Al-Arabi into Syria, in order to favour
press freedom.”
According to information gathered by RSF, this ban was caused by a 28 June
harsh editorial criticising Syria’s failure to defend Lebanon during last
week’s Israeli air raids. The daily pointed out that “no single missile was
fired against the Israeli warplanes by the Syrian air force which is
supposed to defend Lebanon under the agreement which justifies their
presence in Lebanon.”
