El Watan (TV channel)

Television channel

El Watan Al Djazairia
الوطن الجزائرية
Programming
Country	Algeria
Broadcast area	Europe, Africa, Middle-East
Headquarters	Tunis, Tunisia
Language(s)	Arabic
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Hamas
History
Launched	February 20, 2014 (2014-02-20)
Closed	12 October 2015
Links
Website	elwatanmedia.ma (french)

El Watan Al Djazairia (Arabic: الوطن الجزائرية) was an Arabic language satellite television channel broadcasting from Algeria. El Watan Al Djazairia was set up by Islamist party Hamas with a number of Arab intellectuals from Algeria and the Arab World.

History

El Watan Al Djazairia was founded on 20 February 2014, it has started to broadcast its programs on 20 February 2014. It closed down on 12 October 2015 over a broadcast of an interview of an Islamist fighter.^[1]^[2] At a demonstration in front of Parliament over the channel's closure, 18 people were arrested and brutalized by police.^[3]

References

^ "Algerian authorities shut down El Watan TV | Satellite | News | Rapid TV News". www.rapidtvnews.com. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ "Algeria closes private TV channel over Islamist's comments". Reuters. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ "قوات الأمن الجزائرية تمنع بالقوة احتجاج صحفيي قناة "الوطن" ضد إغلاقها". CNN Arabic (in Arabic). 14 October 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2023.