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Protest Over Al-Jazeera Journalist’s Conviction
Some 100 journalists and lawyers staged a rally in Islamabad yesterday against a seven-year jail term handed down to Al-Jazeera reporter Tayseer Alouni by Spain this week for collaborating with Al-Qaeda. The protesters termed the Spain court verdict as politically motivated. Dozens of reporters, cameramen, photographers, journalists’ trade union leaders and lawyers’ representatives took part in the rally. “Tayseer is a journalist not a terrorist,” read one banner, as protesters wearing black arm bands marched toward Parliament square chanting slogans including: “Do not demonize Muslims”.
How many were tehre demanded we not demonize Beelzebub?
Later they handed a memo of protest to the Spanish Embassy in Islamabad. “It’s utterly shameful that a so-called civilized country has convicted a journalist who was performing his duty,” said Fauzia Shahid, president of Pakistan’s National Press Club. Alouni, who is Syrian-born but a naturalized Spaniard, was jailed by a Spanish court at the end of Europe’s biggest Al-Qaeda trial which began last April. He interviewed the group’s leader Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Posted by: Fred 2005-09-29
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