{"id":92454,"date":"2012-05-17T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:20:22","slug":"al-oula-newspaper-boss-ends-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92454","title":{"rendered":"Al-Oula newspaper boss ends hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebil Jridet, General Director of the Arabic-language\u00a0weekly newspaper Al-Oula has ended his <a title=\"UNCUT: Tunisia: newspaper director on hunger strike in protest at government\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/05\/tunisia-newspaper-director-on-hunger-strike-in-protest-at-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hunger strik<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/05\/tunisia-newspaper-director-on-hunger-strike-in-protest-at-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jridet spent seven days on hunger strike <a title=\"Scribd: The founding director of Al Oulais starting a wild hunger strike\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/93494453\/Statement-Wild-Hunger-Srike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in protest<\/a> at Tunisian government\u2019s \u201cunequal\u201d distribution of state advertisements among newspapers. He accuses the government of allocating adverts according to \u201cnewspapers\u2019 political affiliations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The director&#8217;s decision came after talks with Samir Dilou, Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice on 15 May. Dilou said: \u201cthe state advertisement issue is a just cause and requires all concerned parties\u2019 efforts in order to come up with the solutions which would make the distribution of state ads among newspapers a transparent process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, a national conference addressing state advertisement matters will be held at the end of the month. The National Syndicate for Tunisia Journalists and the National Syndicate for Independent and Party Newspapers will head the conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take much time and we are going through serious financial problems which might come in the way of issuing the newspaper in the upcoming weeks\u201d Nebil Jridet told Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebil Jridet, General Director of the Arabic-language\u00a0weekly newspaper Al-Oula has ended his hunger strike. Jridet spent seven days on hunger strike in protest at Tunisian government\u2019s \u201cunequal\u201d distribution of state advertisements among newspapers. He accuses the government of allocating adverts according to \u201cnewspapers\u2019 political affiliations\u201d. The director&#8217;s decision came after talks with Samir Dilou, Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4060],"tags":[4263,13461,727,7352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109413,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92454\/revisions\/109413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}