Articles by Maharat Foundation
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 […]