MJA calls to reinstate deducted points on DhiFM broadcasting licence

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) has called Department of Information to retract the decision on deducting five points from DhiFM’s broadcasting license for transmitting a visual live coverage of a protest organised by the opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) outside the Presidential Palace on 28 January.

The Content Committee of Department of Information – administered under the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture – deducted five points from DhiFM’s broadcasting license after obtaining the programme contents from the editorial.

Meanwhile, Police Integrity Commission ruled that the order by Maldives Police Services for DhiFM to cease coverage of a riot outside the presidential residence on January 28 was unconstitutional and violated the police act.

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