• Ali Ismail

Plaintiffs
Gebran Bassil (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Facebook
Date of publication
Case status
Open

Case summary

On Wednesday 12 June 2019, Ali Ismail received a call from the cybercrime bureau and was asked to show up at the bureau the next day for interrogation. The reason for the summons is a screenshot of an old post that he had previously posted on his personal account, represented by an image of an Al-Diyar newspaper article entitled "$ 500 Million from Cedar to Bassil to Purchase Treasury Bonds." Ismail was released at 10 in the evening, without signing a pledge

About the complaint

Date of contact
2019-06-12
Date of investigation
2019-06-13
Station name
Cybercrime bureau
Detained?
No
Requested to sign a pleadge
Refused signing
Contacted via
Phone call

Case details

Charge
Libel and slander
Sentenced?
No

Timeline

  1. contact
    2019-06-12
  2. investigation
    2019-06-13