• Ashraf Al-Rachaini

Plaintiffs
(Antonine University)
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Facebook
Date of publication
2015-09-22
Case status
Closed

Case summary

Al-Raichaini posted on Facebook his certificate from the Antonin University with the caption: "the certificate has become garbage." The administration at University charged him with slander, libel, and defamation. He was contacted and asked to show up for interrogation at cybercrime bureau, but in fact the university did not want to sue him, they just forced him to sign a pledge and to delete the picture from facebook and finally to apologies via mail. Further more he was asked to contact his friends and contacts and ask them to remove the pic

About the complaint

Date of investigation
2015-09-22
Station name
Cybercrime bureau
Detained?
No
Requested to sign a pleadge
Yes
Contacted via
Phone call

Case details

Charge
Defamation, libel, and slander
Sentenced?
No

Timeline

  1. publication
    2015-09-22
  2. investigation
    2015-09-22