showing Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah
By Benjamin Weinthal
BERLIN - Germany has banned Hizbullah's Al-Manar satellite television station, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter revealed on Tuesday.
Dichter was in Berlin to sign a declaration of intent with his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schäuble, to foster cooperation on counterterrorism and crime-fighting technology.
When asked if Hizbullah's status as a legal organization in Germany - it has 900 active members there - would be on the agenda in his talks with the German Interior Ministry, Dichter told The Jerusalem Post: "I heard they banned Al-Manar."
An Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed to the Post that Schäuble had issued an administrative order on November 11 and that the ban would go into effect toward the end of the month. Read more ...
BERLIN - Germany has banned Hizbullah's Al-Manar satellite television station, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter revealed on Tuesday.
Dichter was in Berlin to sign a declaration of intent with his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schäuble, to foster cooperation on counterterrorism and crime-fighting technology.
When asked if Hizbullah's status as a legal organization in Germany - it has 900 active members there - would be on the agenda in his talks with the German Interior Ministry, Dichter told The Jerusalem Post: "I heard they banned Al-Manar."
An Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed to the Post that Schäuble had issued an administrative order on November 11 and that the ban would go into effect toward the end of the month. Read more ...
Source: Jerusalem Post
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