Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) calls Department of Information to retract decision on deducting five points from DhiFM’s broadcasting license for transmitting a visual live coverage of a protest organised by the opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party outside the Presidential Palace on 28 January. The Content Committee of Department of Information – administered under the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture – deducted five points from DhiFM’s broadcasting license after obtaining the programme contents from the editorial. MJA called the government to withdraw the decision after viewing the report published ...
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