APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 07 June 2021. Palestinian journalists take part in the protest against the dismissal of Head of the PJS, Nasser Abu Bakr from his job, in front of the Agence France Press (AFP) office.
01-SOUDBITE: Ahed Farwana
02-SOUDBITE: Tahsin Al-Astal, Vice-President of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate
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Abu Bakr, who has worked for Agence France Press (AFP) for more than 20 years, was sacked without valid reason, in what the IFJ’s leading body called “a clear case of victimization for his trade union activities, in contravention of the law and international standards”.
Abu Bakr, who is an elected member of the IFJ’s executive committee, had been instrumental in filing complaints about the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces to the United Nations Special Rapporteurs and in documenting and exposing attacks on Palestinian journalists and media.
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