{"id":30639,"date":"2024-05-06T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/un-stresses-importance-of-press-freedom-as-israel-shuts-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:00:29","slug":"un-stresses-importance-of-press-freedom-as-israel-shuts-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/un-stresses-importance-of-press-freedom-as-israel-shuts-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"UN stresses importance of press freedom as Israel shuts Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The United Nations, UN, has underscored the importance of press freedom following Israel\u2019s decision to close broadcaster Al Jazeera\u2019s operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, in New York said they stood firmly against any decision to roll back freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA free press provides an invaluable service to ensure that the public is informed and engaged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his Cabinet had unanimously voted to close broadcaster Al Jazeera\u2019s operations in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Israeli lawmakers approved a new media law widely referred to as the \u201cAl Jazeera law\u201d that gives the government powers to ban foreign broadcasters if they are deemed a risk to state security.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Al Jazeera has decried the Israeli decision and vowed to pursue \u201call avenues\u201d available to protect its rights and employees.<\/p>\n<p>UN stresses importance of press freedom as Israel shuts Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations, UN, has underscored the importance of press freedom following Israel\u2019s decision to close broadcaster Al Jazeera\u2019s operations&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14868,1421,15,4689],"tags":[1425,14869,4690,180,305],"class_list":["post-30639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-jazeera","category-israel","category-news","category-united-nations","tag-israel","tag-jazeera","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}