South Africa: Al Jazeera Faces Protest Over HIV-Positive Journalist

16 February 2012

A small group of activists picketed outside the Johannesburg offices of the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, this week to demand the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was dismissed solely because of his HIV-positive status.

About 100 activists chanted and sang outside the offices of Al Jazeera, in Johannesburg. They were a small group, but they represented powerful civil society organisations - two of the country's powerful trade unions, COSATU and FEDUSA, campaign group Treatment Action Campaign and social rights movement, Section 27. Their message was also very clear, as articulated through a loud-hailer by the Treatment Action Campaign's Nokhwezi Hoboyi in a memorandum delivered to Al Jazeera's Johannesburg offices.

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