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Head of Libyan Journalists Union rejects decision to establish government body to monitor professional breaches, considers it contrary to constitutional guarantees and international treaties.

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 Benghazi, 25 January 2022 (Lana) The Head of Libyan Journalists Union Mustapha Fenoush has dismissed the decision to set up a government media body to monitor professional breaches in the Libyan media, calling it contrary to constitutional guarantees and international treaties guaranteeing freedom of information and expression.

"This decision poses a threat to the freedom of the media and their right to free expression, is totally contrary to constitutional guarantees and international treaties, and is contrary to the freedom of opinion and expression prevailing in democratic societies in our contemporary world," Fenoush said in a statement on behalf of the General Union of Libyan Journalists.

In the statement, a copy of which was obtained by the Libyan News Agency, Fenoush announced union's rejection of what he called taming of the press and the media, and any dictates and instructions outside the scope of any legal or moral obligation, and service of truth, the nation and the Libyan people.

The statement stressed that the General Union of Journalists and Media will continue to defend the freedom of the press and the media within the framework of the principles of human rights and democracy, as well as the struggle for the independence of the work of journalists and media in accordance with the rules of the profession and its ethics and standards its noble mission, calling for the withdrawal of this decision and all legal guarantees for the work of Libyan journalists and media to be provided.

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