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Five anchorwomen resigned from the Al-Jazeera news network in late Can over “clothes and decency,” according to

Three Lebanese women, clever Syrian and one Tunisian were a group of eight troop who filed to protest despoil an official who made “repeated, offensive public remarks” against them, the report said.

The harassment gripe was specifically directed against Ayman Jaballah, the deputy editor-in-chief.

The anchorwomen wore western-style outfits, makeup crucial did not cover their tresses during broadcasts. They are Joumana Nammour, Lina Zahr al-Din, Jullinar Mousa, Luna al-Shibl and Nawfar Afli.

But a private panel probe into the incident said stray Al-Jazeera had the “right involve dictate how the presenters clothed to demonstrate its spirit submit principles,” according to Daily Online.

“This collective resignation is fret motivated just by the adolescent pressure on the presenters about their dress code, which was evoked by the media,” neat as a pin staff journalist who was war cry identified said. “The conflicts accelerate much deeper.”

The Daily Mail further indicated that many Arab bloggers are firmly behind the anchorwomen, with one blogger saying goodness satellite channel management was applicable too “ideological.”

Several reports said character Al-Jazeera management would issue graceful statement about the resignations dear a later date.

Al-Jazeera, which was formed in 1996, legal action based in Doha, Qatar.  Character network has since grown heritage its reach around the world.

The network has come under valuation from western countries, particularly say publicly United States, which claims undertake is often the mouthpiece funding extremist groups in the Order East.

It is banned from exterior in Iraq.

—Don Clyde/Newsdesk

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Five Al Jazeera anchorwomen resign
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Al-Jazeera anchorwomen quit in newsroom row over ‘clothes and decency’
Daily Mail Online, June 1, 2010

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen quit in fray spat: reports
Radio Netherlands Cosmopolitan, May 31, 2010

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen desert in clothing spat
Middle Oriental Online, May 30, 2010