Category Archives: Denmark

TV satellite operator usurps court’s prerogative to silence Kurdish TV station

By Reporters Without Borders:  Reporters Without Borders is stunned by Paris-based TV satellite operator Eutelsat’s decision to stop carrying the broadcasts of Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV station Roj TV on the grounds that a Danish court found it guilty of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an armed separatist group regarded by Turkey as a terrorist…

Kurdish Roj TV fined but remains on air

By bianet.org: The Copenhagen City Court in Denmark has ruled against stopping broadcasts of the Kurdish satellite channel Roj TV but imposed a fine of DKK 65,000. A trial was pending against the television channel on the grounds of its alleged connection to the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook…