Lebanon

(MAHARAT/IFEX) – Maharat Foundation denounces the threatening arson attack directed against the property of journalist Aziz El Metni, the editor in chief of “Al-Anbaa” newspaper. Maharat Foundation and other observers consider this a deliberate act of intimidation against El Metni, in response to his work as a journalist. On the evening of 20 January 2008, […]

(MAHARAT/IFEX) – On 10 January 2008, the prosecutor general of Bekaa arrested four students at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Zahleh (eastern Lebanon) on charges of slander, libel and public insult following conversations between them on a Facebook webpage that were deemed inappropriate by one of their colleagues who pressed charges against them. The four […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On the second anniversary of newspaper editor Gebran Tueni’s murder, Reporters Without Borders has said the special international tribunal created by the United Nations to try those responsible for former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s assassination should also have jurisdiction over the other car-bombings in Lebanon since October 2004. The press freedom organisation also […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a 9 December 2007 WAN press release: Lebanese Journalist Wins Arab Newspaper Award Beirut, Lebanon, 9 December 2007 – Michel Hajji Georgiou, a senior political analyst at the French-language daily L’Orient-Le Jour in Lebanon, has been awarded the 2007 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize from the World Association of […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a Human Rights Watch press release: Lebanon/Israel: Hezbollah Smear Campaign Won’t Silence Report Investigation Criticizes Wartime Conduct (Beirut, August 29, 2007) – Human Rights Watch today canceled a news conference planned for Thursday, August 30, 2007 in Beirut, citing reports by Hezbollah-controlled media about planned demonstrations […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 31 May 2007 CPJ press release: U.N. tribunal offers chance for justice in Lebanese journalist attacks New York, May 31, 2007 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.N. Security Council’s establishment of an international criminal tribunal empowered to prosecute individuals responsible for a series of deadly attacks […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 25 May 2007 CPJ press release: Lebanon: Army imposes restrictions on coverage of northern clashes New York, May 25, 2007 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that journalists have been prevented since Monday from entering a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon during clashes between Islamist […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the continuing detention of New TV reporter Firas Hatoum, cameraman Abdel-Azim Khayat and driver Mohammed Barbar, who were arrested on 19 December 2006 for entering the apartment of a key prosecution witness in the February 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. New TV is a satellite […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a 19 December 2006 IPI press release: Vienna, 19 December 2006 New Report on Media in Lebanon Shows Political Instability is Undermining Press Freedom In a report titled, “Media in Lebanon: Reporting on a Nation Divided,” the International Press Institute (IPI) provides an assessment of the current challenges to press […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 December 2006 CPJ press release: Lebanon: Tueni’s killers go unpunished one year on New York, December 11, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed that a year after the assassination of leading Lebanese journalist Gebran Tueni in Beirut, the perpetrators remain at large. On December 12, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 9 August 2006 CPJ letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: August 9, 2006 His Excellency Ehud Olmert Prime Minister State of Israel Jerusalem, Israel Via Facsimile: +972-2-5669245 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by Israeli military actions that sharply restrict the ability of the press […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Israeli “Secret War” Tactic after Threat to Media The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today demanded that the Israeli Defense Forces lift their newly announced limits on journalist travel in southern Lebanon and allow all media staff to travel freely in the conflict zone. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Reporters Without Borders in Beirut to express solidarity with Lebanese media Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard has gone to Beirut, where he has met with executives and editors of news media that have been the victim of Israeli air strikes including the LBC, New TV […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: LEBANON: TV crews allege targeting by Israeli warplanes in the south New York, July 27, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today over allegations by several television crews that Israeli warplanes had attacked them, effectively shutting down live television coverage from southeast Lebanon. […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 July 2006 CPJ press release: Lebanon: Lebanese journalist killed, TV transmitters hit New York, July 24, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the killing of a freelance photographer and a media technician during separate Israeli missile attacks in Lebanon. Layal Najib, 23, a freelance […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has expressed great shock at the death of Lebanese press photographer Layal Nagib in an Israeli attack on the southern Lebanese town of Cana. Her death follows that of a technician for Lebanese TV station LBC in Israeli bombing east of Beirut on 22 July 2006. “We are appalled that […]