• Bachara Charbel, 
  • Georges Barbari

Plaintiffs
Country
Lebanon
Platform
Website
Date of publication
2019-09-12
Case status
Closed

Case summary

al-Watan newspapers and this website published: "New Ambassadors in Baabda ... Welcome to Khamenei Republic". They were interrogated by the discriminatory Attorney General, Judge Imad Qabalan, and released on a residency document after about two hours. On Friday, November 21, 2019, the Court of Publications ruled that the prosecution of the Public Prosecution against Nidaa al-Watan should not be investigated, and closed the case.]

About the complaint

Date of contact
2019-09-12
Date of investigation
2019-09-18
Detained?
No
Request to delete content?
No
Requested to sign a pleadge
No
Contacted via
Fax

Case details

القضاة
  • Nadia Jadyal - Publications court - Beirut
Sentenced?
No
Sentence
Acquittal
In absentia?
No

Timeline

  5. publication
    2019-09-12
  6. contact
    2019-09-12
  7. investigation
    2019-09-18
  8. ruling
    2019-11-21

References

  1. http://www.skeyesmedia.org/ar/News/Lebanon/8025
  2. https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/nidaa-al-watan-newspaper-co-v-public-prosecutor

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