{"id":100811,"date":"2023-07-09T06:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=100811"},"modified":"2023-07-09T06:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:46:32","slug":"syrian-government-cancels-bbcs-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/100811\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian government cancels BBC\u2019s accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>The Syrian government has cancelled the BBC&#8217;s media accreditation over what it called &#8220;biased and misleading reports&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syrian Ministry of Information said, in a statement, that the BBC failed to adhere to &#8220;professional standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC published a report last month on what it said were &#8220;direct links&#8221; between the trade of captagon and the family of President Bashar al-Assad, as well as the Syrian military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said that the BBC has occasionally provided &#8220;subjective and fake information\u201d since Syria&#8217;s civil war started in 2011, without referring to the Captagon report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC defended itself saying that it provided impartial, independent journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We speak to people across the political spectrum to establish the facts,&#8221; BBC spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syria\u2019s Captagon trade emerged during the war years. 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