Lebanon Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Australian television journalists detained for two weeks in Lebanon

April 21, 2016 12:54 PM EDT

Four television journalists with the Australian broadcaster Channel Nine were released from a Lebanese prison on April 20, 2016, after two weeks in detention, Beirut’s English-language Daily Star newspaper reported.

A missed opportunity at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

March 18, 2016 8:01 AM EDT

On March 8, the Appeals Panel of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the September 18 conviction of Karma Khayat, a journalist who had been ordered to pay a €10,000 (USD$11,064) fine because her channel broadcast interviews with confidential witnesses.