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 Samir Kassir Foundation, Aref Saghieh Bldg.( Ground Floor), 63, Zahrani St., Sioufi, Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon Tel /Fax: 00961 1 397334, Mobile: 00961 3 372717, E-Mail Address: [email protected] The SKeyes Centre Report for Violation s against Media and Cultural Freedoms in January 2010 In January 2010, SKeyes recorded a number of violations against media and cultural freedoms in the four countries that it covers: Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan. Lebanon There were several incidents related to press freedoms in Lebanon, namely, the closure of institutions, book banning and fines against media workers. However, the most significant event this month was the advocacy action by several media professionals, who called for the establishment of a trade union that regulates their profession. 1  Closures/bans: - (9 / 1) the security forces shut down seven illegal radio stations: The Cyber Crime and Intellectual Property Bureau, a subordinate of the  judicial police in Beirut, raided a number of unlicensed radio stations in the city of Tripoli. The stations are: “Sawt al-Fann”, “al-Izaaa al-Shamalia”, “Mazika”, “Paradise”, and “3FM”. The stations were forced to shut down and their broadcasting equipment was confiscated. This is while the operators of “Maestro” and “Shabab al-Hubb” voluntarily stopped broadcasting and closed down their stations to prevent raids by the security forces. These measures were carried out as part of the campaign for the reorganization of non-political radios, following the chaos witnessed in radio broadcasts in the past five years, and at the orders of the Ministry of Information in coordination with the Telecommunications Regulation Department, all with the consent of the Public Prosecution.  A number of media professionals objected to the closure of some radio  stations, as this “increased the number of  those unemployed in the media  sector, particularly as we also witnessed recently many dismissals in  several media instituti ons”. Some technicians working in radio stations also said that “the best solution is to adopt digital broadcasting which  allows for a larger number of wavelengths for broadcasting, i.e. the

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