• Charles Jabbour

Plaintiffs
Mohamad Jamil Jaafel (Lawyer),  Nadim Qobar (Lawyer),  Dania Abu Melhem (Lawyer),  Sawsan Murad (Lawyer)
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Facebook
Date of publication
2017-11-23
Case status
Open

Case summary

During an episode of a program on OTV, Jabbour compared Bashir Gemayel to a saint and the Attorney General claimed he "harmed the divine individual", and he posted it on Facebook. On Thursday, January 30, 2020, the Appeal Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon referred journalist Charles Jabbour to the Court of Publications in Mount Lebanon for the offense of “insulting the divine self,” pursuant to Article 473 of the Penal Code, and the hearing date was set for the fifth of March Next.

About the complaint

Station name
Cybercrime bureau
Detained?
No

Case details

Charge
Insult the divine self and religions
Charged using
Sentenced?
In the process

Timeline

  7. publication
    2017-11-23
  8. hearing
    2020-03-05

References

  1. https://www.mahkama.net/?p=3265
  2. https://www.skeyesmedia.org/ar/News/News/03-02-2020/8298
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epPHAsE_IPc&feature=youtu.be
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