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Arab journalist not permitted to Switzerland
By Irina Malenko (Pravda)
| On 1 October the Western press reported
that an Arabian journalist had not been permitted to Switzerland because
of the lack of an entry visa. However, the newspapers did not report that
the journalist was a Belgian citizen, which means he does not need a visa
to enter Switzerland. During Sunday night, the Brussels correspondent of
Al-Jazeera TV company phoned to his boss and reported he had been arrested
in the Geneva airport. A Swiss police officially confirmed the fact,
though without any explanations. The telephone conversation between
journalist Ahmed Kamel and the editor was directly translated on the Al-Jazeera
TV channel. In the airport, the Belgian citizen of Arabian ethnicity was
undressed and imprisoned. He had intended to report from Geneva on the WTO.
He had been to Geneva many times before, so he could not understand why
now he had been refused to enter the country. "Most likely, because
of the fact that my first name is Ahmed, or because I work for Al-Jazeera".
Qatar TV station Al-Jazeera is now the only channel in the world that has
a correspondent in Kabul. It was criticized by NATO’s politicians
because it had shown a video with Osama bin Laden’s speech. Concerning
the ruling powers of the world, all the greatly praised freedoms, like
freedom of speech, freedom of movement of European citizens inside
European Union, and others, turn out to be existing only for white
citizens. q |
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