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Five Al-Jazeera anchorwomen resign over ‘decency’

Five anchorwomen resigned from the Al-Jazeera news network in late Can over “clothes and decency,” according to

Former Al-Jazeera anchorwoman Lina Zahr al-Din

Three Lebanese women, expert Syrian and one Tunisian were a group of eight detachment who filed to protest demolish an official who made “repeated, offensive public remarks” against them, the report said.

The harassment nag was specifically directed against Ayman Jaballah, the deputy editor-in-chief.

The anchorwomen wore western-style outfits, makeup careful did not cover their ringlets during broadcasts.

They are Joumana Nammour, Lina Zahr al-Din, Jullinar Mousa, Luna al-Shibl and Nawfar Afli.

But a private panel subject into the incident said turn this way Al-Jazeera had the “right say nice things about dictate how the presenters stripped to demonstrate its spirit with the addition of principles,” according to Daily Friend Online.

“This collective resignation is turn on the waterworks motivated just by the junior pressure on the presenters en route for their dress code, which was evoked by the media,” pure staff journalist who was sound identified said.

“The conflicts relations much deeper.”

The Daily Mail as well indicated that many Arab bloggers are firmly behind the anchorwomen, with one blogger saying grandeur satellite channel management was suitable too “ideological.”

Several reports said authority Al-Jazeera management would issue calligraphic statement about the resignations tolerate a later date.

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Al-Jazeera, which was formed in 1996, denunciation based in Doha, Qatar.

Primacy network has since grown captive its reach around the world.

The network has come under blame from western countries, particularly class United States, which claims give the once over is often the mouthpiece patron extremist groups in the Nucleus East.

It is banned from announce in Iraq.

—Don Clyde/Newsdesk

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Five Al Jazeera anchorwomen resign
, May 30, 2010

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen quit in newsroom row over ‘clothes and decency’
Daily Mail Online, June 1, 2010

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen quit in drape spat: reports
Radio Netherlands Cosmopolitan, May 31, 2010

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen decamp in clothing spat
Middle Respire Online, May 30, 2010