The Appeal Committee consisted of Jeff Blackett (chairman, England), former England prop Jeff Probyn, and Dr Roger Evans from Wales.

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"Our main concern always was to take an ethical stance and to do no harm to any revenue streams of programme makers or broadcasters, " Roger Evans told the BBC.

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Roger Evans, a Catholic deacon from Chislehurst, England, was on a tour of the Holy Land with nine others from his parish when the hostilities in Gaza broke out in November.

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