The Board of Directors of the Bahrain Journalists’ Association (BJA) has expressed deep pride in the great role played by the Bahraini press and national media in developing society in all sectors and pushing the sustainable development march forward.
The panel affirmed that they have always represented the first line of defence in the face of all challenges in a responsible patriotic spirit, consolidated and strengthened by the comprehensive development spearheaded by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
BJA’s board voiced deep concern over the hollow allegations and false accusations that have been circulating over the past days on social media network, stressing that they are baseless and unaccepted, as they are attempts to defame Bahraini journalists with treason, distort their reputation, undermine their achievements and cast doubt on their pure national reference in local and even external media outlets.
BJA’s Board of Directors strongly condemned and denounced the attempts to defame the press community to achieve goals that are alien to the journalistic profession and distort the image of the national press at home and abroad, indicating that the matter is about the election of BJA’s president and board of directors, based on BJA’s statute, and has nothing to do with the claimed attempts to topple the board or conspire against it.
The panel explained that the current BJA board session had expired in January 2021, and that the elections were postponed by six months because of the exceptional circumstances created by the novel Coronavirus, noting that the Ministry of Information Affairs agreed to hold the elections after the end of six months, and that all procedures and arrangements are underway to hold BJA’s General Assembly to elect board members by the end of this month.
In its statement, BJA’s board deplored the ongoing attempts to offend the press in the kingdom and politicise BJA’s professional work, calling on BJA members and mass media not to publish such rumours that seek no good to BJA or the Bahraini press, whose long history stands witness to Bahraini journalists’ patriotic stances.
