• Stephen Nasr

Plaintiffs
Gebran Bassil (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Facebook
Date of publication
2019-03-01
Case status
Open

Case summary

Nasr was summoned by the cybercrime bureau on 23/9/2019, as the Foreign Minister had filed a criminal complaint against him for publishing, six months ago, an article in Al-Diyar newspaper about Minister Bassil and Mr. Nader Hariri's actions against the law. After his interrogation was completed and asked if he would like to publish an apology on his page from Minister Bassil, Bassil's lawyer in charge of following up the case is ready to withdraw the complaint. but he refused.

About the complaint

Date of contact
2019-09-23
Date of investigation
2019-09-26
Station name
Cybercrime bureau
Detained?
No
Requested to sign a pleadge
Yes

Case details

Charge
Libel and slander
Sentenced?
No

Timeline

  1. publication
    2019-03-01
  2. contact
    2019-09-23
  3. investigation
    2019-09-26