{"id":81132,"date":"2013-04-29T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iraq-suspends-licenses-of-10-satellite-tv-channels\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:09:03","slug":"iraq-suspends-licenses-of-10-satellite-tv-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iraq-suspends-licenses-of-10-satellite-tv-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Suspends Licenses of 10 Satellite TV Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Iraq, Satellite TV, Middle East<br \/>\nPublication: ForeignPolicy.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 04\/29\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/7520175744_125d7d6f43_n.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Al Jazeera van.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Piotr Drabik\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Iraq has accused 10 satellite channels, including <strong>Al Jazeera<\/strong>, of airing &#8220;misleading and exaggerated&#8221; coverage of recent fighting and &#8220;promoting violence.&#8221; While the country has suspended the licenses of these 10 networks, it will not be able to cut the broadcasts of the channels, which are based abroad. However, Iraq\u2019s media commission will prohibit journalists from these channels from reporting from inside Iraq.  <\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s move has been perceived as a crackdown on dissent by the Shiite-dominated government on a growing Sunni uprising since, according to reports, nine of the affected 10 channels have Sunni financial backers, and most have aired heavy coverage of the Sunni protest movement that started almost a week ago and has claimed the life of more than 200 people. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Iraq, Satellite TV, Middle East Publication: ForeignPolicy.com Publication Date: 04\/29\/2013 Al Jazeera van. Image credit: Piotr Drabik Iraq has accused 10 satellite channels, including Al Jazeera, of airing &#8220;misleading and exaggerated&#8221; coverage of recent fighting and &#8220;promoting violence.&#8221; While the country has suspended the licenses of these 10 networks, it will not be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}