LBC Saudi Arabia offices closed

[kappa273]

let's say this guy is a liar...

will he be arrested for lying?

and what's wrong with what's he's doing?

didn't Ibn Saud have 53 or something kids?
how did these come? he didn't buy them from the grocery shop...

i wonder what will they call his crime?

KSA, an insult to humanity.

kappa

[hannaalsayssa]

Originally Posted by Dry Ice

09 August 2009

JEDDAH: The Ministry of Culture and Information closed the Saudi offices of Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) here on Saturday for operating without a license.

"A committee in which the ministry is a member ordered the shuttering on Saturday of the LBC channel's office in Jeddah's Al-Rawdah district for want of license," a source in the Makkah provincial branch of the ministry told Arab News on condition he not be named. "The office had been working without license for the past three years."

The office also served Rotana TV and Al-Resalah, an Islamic broadcasting channel, both owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The prince also owns a majority stake in LBC.

The office housed reporters and part time employees. LBC's production team uses the office for special assignments in Saudi Arabia, such as covering Haj.

Staff members contacted by Arab News declined to comment on the grounds that they were not authorized to speak.

By Muhammad Humaidan
Arab News 2009

where are the freedom fighthers be 14shbatt..

[Dry Ice]

Saudi woman journalist sentenced to 60 lashes

Muhammad Humaidan | Arab News
Sunday 25 October 2009

JEDDAH: A Saudi woman journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in the LBC program “Bold Red Line” aired in mid-July, Suleiman Al-Jumaie, the lawyer representing Mazen Abdul Jawad, the prime offender in the case, told Arab News on Saturday.

“The journalist, R.A., the seventh accused in the case, accepted the verdict issued by Judge Muhammad Amin Mirdad of the Jeddah Summary Court. Her acceptance deprives her of the right to appeal,” Al-Jumaie said.

R.A. was accused of being an accomplice to Abdul Jawad who provoked a furor because he boasted on TV about having premarital sex and also provided explicit sexual descriptions and told how to pick up girls and women. His statements have been viewed as publicizing and promoting sinful behavior and violating Saudi social norms on the issues of dating and premarital sex.

According to media sources, the eighth on the list of the accused, A.R., a woman journalist working for Saudi Television, who was present in the court on Saturday, received a summons to appear in court on Monday.

Al-Jumaie commented: “It is unprecedented in the country that a journalist should be convicted by a court for doing something related to her job as a media person. The verdict also signals the marginalization or freezing of the Disputes Committee for Publications in the Ministry of Culture and Information. The verdict will gratify those people who have been striving to deactivate the committee and bring media persons to ordinary courts for prosecution. A man on a recent TV talk show demanded the dissolution of the committee. His demand has been realized by arraigning the journalist before the summary court although it is no doubt a clear violation of a past royal decree and the orders of the rulers, who have always encouraged dialogue and freedom of expression and coined favorable regulations for printing and publications, including the setting up of the committee to look into violations by the media.

“On the other hand, some people seek to bring the whole media and media persons to ordinary courts. In my view, the issue is not the crimes committed by Abdul Jawad but the prosecution of the entire media.”

His comment was made before his departure for Riyadh to attend a sitting of the Disputes Committee, which on Sunday morning will examine a case against the LBC channel. He believes that the committee will rule against the channel and spell out its punishment.

The lawyer said he was currently studying Abdul Jawad’s case so that he can challenge the verdict. Having Abdul Jawad as the prime convict, the upholding of the appeal would be beneficial to others implicated as well, he said.

[kappa273]

i invite you to read a book by John Bradley, titled: "Saudi Arabia exposed"..

it reveals a lot about this retarded society and the reason behind this... the Saudi family and their wahabi allies...

the family is a disgrace and is keeping the whole society kidnapped in their twisted ideology..

did u notice that we never heard of any articles written in Saudi talking about any problem facing hte saudi society... they try to introduce the picture that it is utopia over there..

they would like to picture their society as the ultimate islamic society built on good manners, customs and virtue... they fail to notice that the whole royal family is corrupt and their corrupt seems to be endemic...

according to Bradley, drugs, homosexuality are rampant in KSA and many people have a problem in their sense of belonging to such a regime...

i am interested in knowing who will succeed King Abdallah and if it is Nayef, who will succeed Nayef?

kappa

[Dry Ice]

Prosecutor in LBC case seeks harsher punishment for woman journalist

26 October 2009

JEDDAH: The prosecutor in the case of a woman journalist who was handed 60 lashes for her role in an LBC program covering the sex exploits of a Saudi man has appealed the ruling and called for a harsher punishment.

Suleiman Al-Jumaei, lawyer for sex braggart Mazen Abdul Jawad, said the prosecutor appealed the sentence handed to LBC media person R.A., one of seven accused in the case.

"The public prosecutor challenged the punishment of 60 lashes saying it was too light and not in sync with her role as a coordinator and the one who prepared and advertised the program," said Al-Jumaei.

"The verdict, however, is only at its primary stage. It will not be executed without the approval of the appeals court. The court may either uphold or revoke it," he added.

He also expressed his worry at how slowly the Disputes Committee for Publications is dealing with Abdul Jawad's complaint against the LBC. The complaint was submitted three months ago to the committee, which operates under the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Abdul Jawad claims that the LBC edited and re-contextualized a long video shoot into a short segment to present him in the worst possible light.

"LBC has violated printing and publications regulations by portraying Abdul Jawad in a bad manner, particularly as it goes against the religious values and traditions of Saudi Arabia. It was the channel that violated these values first when it filmed the segment. The channel also violated Saudi law by operating from an unlicensed Jeddah office," he said.

He added that if the Disputes Committee for Publications does not carry out its job properly then his client has the right to sue the Ministry of Culture and Information for damages.

"When the committee's decision comes, I will study it and pursue the channel anywhere in the world if it is in the interests of my client," he said. The lawyer has also submitted an additional petition to the committee urging it to pass judgment quickly.

The Ministry of Culture and Information says it has forwarded Abdul Jawad's complaint to the Disputes Committee for Publications, which would only examine whether there are violations of regulations pertaining to printing and publication.

Arab News failed to get any comment on the matter from the channel's office. Malik Maktabi, the host of "Bold Red Line," said in an earlier statement that he was not authorized to comment on the case.

By Muhammad Humaidan

© Arab News 2009

[Cyclops]

the foundation of this country is a big mistake and whatever happens after is not to blame...
everthing after that is due to "propagation of error"...
Just read the rates of divorce in the kingdom and the stupid/tirvial reasons behind most of the cases...
whereas LBC DESERVEs because it's a saudi mouthpiece no more ;)

[Dry Ice]

Saudi king pardons LBC journalist

By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

RIYADH: The Saudi king has waived the lashing a court ordered against a woman for working at a Lebanese television channel that aired a sexual confessions program, an official said on Monday. “He [King Abdullah] has asked the Justice Ministry to drop the lashing” against journalist Rozana al-Yami, information ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman al-Hazaa told AFP.

Hazaa said the king ordered the “transfer of the cases to the Information Ministry,” referring to Yami’s case and that of another female journalist, reportedly named Iman Rajab, who was convicted of working for the same controversial program which caused a stir in the conservative kingdom.

Yami, 22, said on Saturday she was sentenced to 60 lashes by a court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for having worked part-time in Saudi Arabia for the Saudi-owned Lebanese network LBC, adding that the judge mentioned that LBC had lacked the appropriate license to operate in the kingdom.

She said the judge dropped all charges she had been directly involved with the episode of the program, which was aired in July. Saudi judges base their rulings on strict Islamic Sharia law, but it was not immediately clear how the judge in this case reached the verdict.

The Information Ministry committee which will look into the two cases, usually addresses media-related matters. It consists of representatives of the justice and information ministries as well as a number of journalists.

Yami’s sentencing came after Saudi airline sales clerk Mazen Abdel-Jawad was convicted of offensive behavior and sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes on October 7 for his appearance on the LBC show “Bold Red Line,” in which he talked about picking up girls and having sex with them.

Three friends who appeared on the show with him were given two-year prison terms and 300 lashes each, while a cameraman who helped film the episode was sentenced to two months in jail. Hazaa underlined that Abdel-Jawad’s case will not be addressed by the ministry’s committee.

Abdel-Jawad’s lawyer Suleiman al-Jimaie expressed disappointment at the decision not to refer his client’s sentence to the Information Ministry committee.

“You cannot separate the cases. This is one television program,” he told AFP.

He also complained that the producers of the program and the owners of the network were not punished.

The program triggered criticism from conservative Saudi clerics of LBC and its progressive owner, multi-billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Prince Alwaleed has in recent years pushed hard against Saudi rules banning cinemas and music in public places through his Rotana and LBC media groups.

However, according to reports on Saturday, LBC has decided to stop broadcasting “Bold Red Line” outside of Lebanon.