Intimidating warning of Ministry of Culture and Information
BBC reprots that Mimister of Culture and Information Mr. Sayad Makhdum Raheen has said if the visual media does not stop broadcasting pictuers of irritating scenes they will be officially introduced to prosecutors.
The report which has been posted on BBC website today quotes from Minister of Culture and Information: “many complaints have been recieved by Media Violation Investigation Commission and if the media do not pay attention they will be introduced to prosecutors.”
Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union cosiders the telecast of violent scenes of terrorist and suicide attacks against mass media law and moral principles of journalism while at the same time insists that the behaviour of Ministry of Culture and Information with this issue is also contradictory to laws and bullying.
The Media Violation Investigation Commission that Minister of Culture and Information has named and claimed that many complaints have been recieved by that, is itself in fact an illegal structure.
According to the Afghan mass media law the responsibility of investigation of media’s violations is belong to Mass Media Commission which is not established by the Minister of Culture and Information based on some his personal reasons.
When the Minister of Culture and Information founds his reasoning on law and says that irritating scenes are illegal, and wants the media to obay the law. He hemself should not act against the law and do not order an illegal organization to invistigate media’s violations.
The Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union believes that any violations of media should be threated by law and order and no illegal institution should intervene in this regard.
Meanwhile the Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union asks the visual media of the country to prevent telecast of any irritating and annoying scenes of terrorist and suicide attacks.
The Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union
Executive Council
