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Sanction Decision by Ofcom - Al Mustakillah Television
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If anyone is interested Ofcom have fined Al Mustakillah Television £25,000 for various offences re broadcasts on 9 & 25 Oct 2011 on Arab Dream. Roughly speaking they relate to political bias.
This followed complaints from three viewers who considered the programmes broadcast on 9 and 25 October 2011 were used to promote the Popular Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development (“the Popular Petition”) in Tunisia also known as ‘Aridah Chaabia’ and ‘Al Aridah’.
Ofcom understands the Popular Petition was a manifesto written by Dr Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi (“Dr Hamdi”), who featured in both of these programmes, adopted by the political party known as the Party of Progressive Conservatives in Tunisia.2 Ofcom’s records show that Dr Hamdi was also the Ofcom compliance contact for Al Mustakillah Television while it was broadcasting under TLCS-138. Dr Hamdi is also sole director of Al Mustakillah. Dr Hamdi is also sole director and majority shareholder of Al Mustakillah (Holdings) Limited which owns Al Mustakillah.
Ofcom published it's finding that the programmes had broken the rules on 23 April 2012 in Broadcast Bulletin 204.
It announced the fine on 4 Jan 2013, over 8 months later.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/content-sanctions-adjudications/Al-Mustakillah-TV.pdf
This followed complaints from three viewers who considered the programmes broadcast on 9 and 25 October 2011 were used to promote the Popular Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development (“the Popular Petition”) in Tunisia also known as ‘Aridah Chaabia’ and ‘Al Aridah’.
Ofcom understands the Popular Petition was a manifesto written by Dr Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi (“Dr Hamdi”), who featured in both of these programmes, adopted by the political party known as the Party of Progressive Conservatives in Tunisia.2 Ofcom’s records show that Dr Hamdi was also the Ofcom compliance contact for Al Mustakillah Television while it was broadcasting under TLCS-138. Dr Hamdi is also sole director of Al Mustakillah. Dr Hamdi is also sole director and majority shareholder of Al Mustakillah (Holdings) Limited which owns Al Mustakillah.
Ofcom published it's finding that the programmes had broken the rules on 23 April 2012 in Broadcast Bulletin 204.
It announced the fine on 4 Jan 2013, over 8 months later.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/content-sanctions-adjudications/Al-Mustakillah-TV.pdf
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