Syria gets first media watchdog
AFP
Date: 05-09-05
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Dissident and state-employed professionals joined forces to set up Syria's first media watchdog, dubbed Hurriyat, Arabic for freedom, in a country where all print and broadcast media are still state-owned.
"This centre has been created because newspapers and journalists have been subjected to certain limitations and controls on their freedom of expression," said the new watchdog's spokesman, human rights lawyer Anwar Bunni.
Its founders wanted an "amendment to the publications law which is a major obstacle to press and journalists' freedom in Syria," Bunni told AFP.
The watchdog, which has yet to be approved by the labour and social affairs ministry, elected a provisional 11-strong board of directors headed by dissident writer Michel Kilo.
But journalists from government mouthpiece Tishrin also took part in its establishment, which came just six days after World Press Freedom Day.
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