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Satellite broadcasting companies banned for inciting religious hate
Bikya Masr Published in Bikya Masr on 20 - 10 - 2010

CAIRO: The management of NileSat, Egypt's satellite broadcasting operator, issued temporary suspensions today to 12 satellite broadcast channels, and citations to 20 others, for “breaches of contract and of the media code of ethics,” relating to the incitement of religious hatred, unlicensed medical advice and obscenity.
In a press release issued today by the Ministry of Information, the Minister indicated that these corrective measures were taken by NileSat after extensive study and were intended to protect the Egyptian and Arab public from broadcasters who were determined to use calls for murder, degradation of religious groups, and the endangerment of people living with serious diseases, all in the pursuit of profit and extremist ideologies.
The Minister underscored the commitment of the Egyptian people and government to freedom of expression and of the media, and that it was incumbent upon the authorities to ensure those legitimate rights were not abused by extremists and quacks.
Earlier this month, the Board of Directors of Media Free Zone had issued a temporary suspension of licenses granted to “El-Baraheen”, an Arab satellite channel broadcaster of the “Khaleegyah”, “El-Nas”, “El-Hafez”, and the “Health & Beauty” satellite channels violating the terms of their contracts with NileSat and for breaches of the Media Code of Ethics. These violations included broadcasting programs which included sectarianism and incitement to religious hatred. An example of this was the El-Khaleegayah channel, which repeatedly hosted radical Sunni presenters who called for the banishment, excommunication and murder of Shiites.
The violations also included the provision of medical advice by unlicensed practitioners and the marketing of so-called “alternative medical” products and regimens, without authorization from the Ministry of Health, such as baseless “herbal cures” for serious medical conditions such Cancer and Hepatitis B and C.
In a related press release issued by NileSat, Ahmed Anis, Chairman of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union stated that all channels whose licenses had been suspended “would be able to re-broadcast on NileSat once it had been certified that they had taken corrective measures” related to the violations outlined in their suspensions.
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