 Bahrain
has suspended local operations of the Qatari broadcaster al-Jazeera and barred a
crew from travelling to the Gulf Arab state.
Al-Jazeera, with a record of tense relations with Arab states over
its coverage of sensitive political topics, recently aired programmes on
poverty and the treatment of Asian labourers, both sensitive matters in
Bahrain.
Bahrain has temporarily frozen the office of the Qatari al-Jazeera
satellite TV channel for breaching the professional media norms and
flouting the laws regulating the press and publishing, the official
Bahrain News Agency said.
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On
Monday, 22 June, Bahrain's oldest newspaper in circulation Akhbar Al Khaleej
was suspended for the day after printing an article critical of Iranian
leaders and making reference to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's alleged Jewish origins. 
