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Link to: Maharat Foundation launches report on the status of freedom of speech and expression

Maharat Foundation launches report on the status of freedom of speech and expression

In cooperation with UNESCO’s regional office in Beirut, Maharat Foundation launched its annual report on the status of freedom of expression and opinion in Lebanon for the year 2008.

Link to: Five IFEX members and other organisations condemn prison sentences for 38 demonstrators; call for an end to attacks on Kalima radio station

Five IFEX members and other organisations condemn prison sentences for 38 demonstrators; call for an end to attacks on Kalima radio station

(CIHRS//IFEX) – The following is an 8 February 2009 joint action by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Arab Archives Institute (AAI), Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Maharat Foundation and 17 other organizations: Without Accountability . . . The Tunisian Government Continues to Suppress Human […]

Link to: Award-winning Iranian movie banned by authorities

Award-winning Iranian movie banned by authorities

(MAHARAT/IFEX) – On 22 March 2008, the Directorate General of the General Security banned “Empire Theaters” (Circuit Empire) from screening a French version of the animated movie “Persepolis” of Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi. The movie is based on the autobiographical bestselling graphic novel about an Iranian girl growing up in Iran during the Iranian revolution. […]

Link to: Editor of socialist newspaper target of arson attack

Editor of socialist newspaper target of arson attack

(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, […]

Link to: Four students arrested, face criminal charges for slander over comments made on Facebook

Four students arrested, face criminal charges for slander over comments made on Facebook

(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 […]