Almotamar.net - A large number of journalists and members of civil society organisation Tuesday gathered at Democracy Square in front the cabinet building in the capital staging a strike in solidarity with 14 October Newspaper. The newspaper and its staff are presently facing a campaign accusing it with infidelity launched by some mosque preachers and extremists.

The strikers chanted slogans calling for the freedom of the press, the right to expression and prevention of charging others with infidelity. The gathering also demanded for not politicizing worshipping places and respecting opinion and other opinion.

Many speeches were delivered at the gathering in solidarity with 14 October newspaper and its editor in chief Ahmed al-Habeedshi and all of them affirmed standing as one rank against all that would impinge a basic right guaranteed in the constitution and the law, i.e. the freedom of expression and the right of the media to criticise wrong phenomena.

The sit-in strikers called on the ministries of information and endowments to take deterrent measures in this regard and to guarantee the freedom of the word and they also demanded the ministry of interior to shoulder its responsibility for protection of journalists and keeping security and stability.

Source: Al-Thawra.net