BEIRUT: The Center for Defense of Media and Cultural Freedoms, SKeyes, condemned an attack on cameraman from Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television.
In a statement issued Friday, the organization said the attack on Mohammad Harb, who was beaten in the neighborhood of Sabra in southern Beirut, after clashes erupted between Palestinian refugees and supporters of the Future Movement.
Harb’s camera and the station’s car were also seized, SKeyes said. The center called for “all parties to facilitate the work of journalists,” and asked journalists to “keep their distances from political disputes,” the statement said.
It also stressed the right of journalists to move freely when covering events without being subjected to “any form of violence or intimidation.”
In an interview with SKeyes, Al-Manar’s managing editor Mohammad Kazan explained that Harb and correspondent Ali Awada arrived in Sabra, but were confronted by a group of young supporters of the Future Movement, who ordered them to stop filming.
He said Awada managed to flee the scene, but that Harb was beaten on his head and body.
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