{"id":40413,"date":"2019-09-03T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40413"},"modified":"2019-09-03T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:52:10","slug":"iraq-suspends-u-s-sponsored-tv-channel-over-corruption-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40413","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Suspends U.S.-Sponsored TV Channel Over Corruption Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept 3 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi government, suspended the offices of the U.S.-sponsored al-Hurra TV channel for three months, over a programme, about alleged corruption among Sunni and Shiite religious clerics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement by Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC), said, &#8220;The CMC Board of Trustees decided to suspend the work of al-Hurra TV&#8217;s offices in Iraq for three months, and suspend its activities until it re-corrects its attitude towards dealing with Iraq affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CMC called on al-Hurra, to &#8220;broadcast an official apology from its administration office in Iraq, for the programme&#8217;s disdain and insult to the symbols and personalities of religious institutions, that damaged their reputation in the hearts of Iraqis,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that the programme, which included corruption in the religious institution in Iraq, &#8220;has provoked angry reactions on both official and popular levels, as it has affected an institution that is highly respected and appreciated by the Iraqi people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug 31, al-Hurra TV broadcast a programme which included testimonies of civil activists and Iraqi citizens, about the existence of administrative and financial corruption in a number of religious institutions and personalities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Hurra, which began broadcasting in 2004, is a U.S.-sponsored satellite channel, that broadcasts news and current affairs programmes, to audiences in the Middle East and North Africa.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept 3 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi government, suspended the offices of the U.S.-sponsored al-Hurra TV channel for three months, over a programme, about alleged corruption among Sunni and Shiite religious clerics. A statement by Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC), said, &#8220;The CMC Board of Trustees decided to suspend the work of al-Hurra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}