Staff at Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s shuttered Al Arab News Channel have reportedly started to receive their final settlements more than two months after the station terminated their contracts. Employees in Cyprus have received cheques after writing to the Prince to make a ‘humanitarian appeal’.
The 24-hour pan-Arab news channel launched out of Bahrain in February 2015, but was pulled after only hours, following an interview with a Bahraini opposition leader.
In March last year, Campaign reported the station was planning to relaunch out of Qatar in the third quarter of 2016, after Bin Talal signed a deal with the Qatari government. Members of staff unable to get visas for Qatar we
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