• Hanady Gerges

Plaintiffs
Samir Hammoud (The Public Prosecutor's cassation judge)
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Facebook
Date of publication
2017-05-02
Case status
Open

Case summary

Hanadi was arrested on Friday after being interrogated by the Cybercrimes Bureau, about posts she wrote on her Facebook page criticizing Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and President Michel Aoun, but the main post leading to her arrest was an Egyptian song directed at Egyptian President Abdel Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, and the song's name is Ahd Al-Arsa, where she was charged with insulting the head of state, slander and defamation, but she denied in the investigation that what was meant was President Aoun. After that, she was transferred to Hobeish police station, and her case was sent to Public Prosecution of the Appeal in North.

About the complaint

Date of contact
2017-08-09
Date of investigation
2017-08-10
Station name
Cybercrime bureau
Detained?
Yes
Detention length (days)
4
Request to delete content?
Forced to delete
Requested to sign a pleadge
No
Contacted via
In person

Case details

القضاة
  • Ghassan Bassil - Executive public prosecutor - Tripoli
Charge
Defaming the president and defaming the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gibran Bassil
Sentenced?
No
In absentia?
No

Timeline

  1. publication
    2017-05-02
  2. contact
    2017-08-09
  3. investigation
    2017-08-10
  4. detention
    2017-08-10
  5. release
    2017-08-14