A Former al-Jazeera Correspondent: I Was Asked to Report False News on Syria

The resigned al-Jazeera TV correspondent in Moscow, Mohammad Hassan, revealed that the channel’s administration used to ask him to report news about the Syrian issue that are contrary to the reality of the situation in Syria and convey part of the true image of certain events, which he found inconsistent with his beliefs. Interviewed by the Lebanese Assafir newspaper, Hassan, who submitted his resignation on April 3rd, 2012 in protest of the channel’s unprofessional coverage of the events in Syria, which extended to the coverage of Russian affairs related to the Middle East region. Hassan said that he made his final decision to resign from the Atari channel, for which he worked since 2008, after…

Smuggling by Al-Jazeera

Former al-Jazeera channel correspondent, Ali Hashim, said on Tuesday that the channel has smuggled Thuraya communication devices and BGAN satellite internet devices into Syria through Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. In an interview with al-Safir Newspaper, Hashim underscored that al-Jazeera channel paid USD 50,000 for each device smuggled into Syria for the opposition to relate their fabricated stories to the channel. He stressed that al-Jazeera administration forced him not to broadcast the footages of gunmen at the Syrian-Lebanese borders, pointing out that al-Jazeera has lost credibility because of its one-sided view and the absence of ‘the other opinion’