In a statement issued Monday, Media Against Violence condemned the “thought terrorism practiced by [former General Security chief] Jamil as-Sayyed against New TV by preventing it from broadcasting an interview recorded with [Lebanon First bloc] MP Okab Sakr.”
On Sunday, New TV interviewer George Salibi apologized for not broadcasting a scheduled report with Sakr during an interview with Sayyed because the latter had reservations about its broadcast.
It is nothing new for Sayyed to block dissenting opinions from being heard, the statement said, adding that Media Against Violence regrets that New TV did not stop the entire program in response to Sayyed’s “repressive behavior.”
The statement also expressed concern over Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun’s tendency to “condemn as an [Israeli] agent anyone who disagrees with him.”
The statement also expressed regret over Lebanese authorities’ decision to ask a Beirut film festival to postpone its screening of the documentary film Green Days–which covers the Iranian opposition–during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit.
Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut Wednesday morning on an official visit and left the country on Thursday night.
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