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Demand for Qatar to shut down Aljazeera is unacceptable and a threat to media freedom - United Nations

United Nations human rights chief said the demand by
Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations for Qatar to close down its
al-Jazeera TV channel is an "unacceptable attack" on the right to
freedoms of expression and opinion.


Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said this on Friday
 after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates
imposed a boycott on Qatar three weeks ago, accusing it of
Source: Demand for Qatar to shut down Aljazeera is unacceptable and a threat to media freedom - United Nations

 

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