Al Jazeera:: Hamas closes Gaza media offices in crackdown

Protesting what they called Hamas' 'ongoing assault on journalists', Palestinian journalists held a sit-in near Ramallah last week to protest against the Hamas government's recent closure of two media offices in Gaza.
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Samir Zaqout of the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights asserted that 'the closure procedures violate Palestinian Basic Amended Law of 2005, which denies any form of monitoring, ban or warning or the imposition of restrictions over the media unless by a judicial decision in conformity'.