Hezbollah cries free speech after TV channel dropped

6 April 2016, 6:06 pm

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Hezbollah slams the Egyptian satellite provider that dropped the terror group’s TV channel on Wednesday.

Al-Manar, the official station of Hezbollah, briefly went off air after its carrier, Egypt’s NileSat, cut the channel. Technicians scrambled to reprogram satellite receivers after the station switched its broadcast to Russia’s Express satellite provider in Lebanon.

“Hezbullah sees a blatant violation of freedom of opinion and freedom of expression in the unjust decision that was taken by the Egyptian Satellite Company (NileSat),” the group said in a statement, according to Naharnet. It calls it “an attempt to muzzle the voice of resistance and right that is embodied in this channel.”

— AP contributed