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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun's wife Naamat Aoun speaks to the members of the media at the presidential palace, in Baabda, Lebanon January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

CPJ, others stand in solidarity with Lebanon news outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid legal harassment

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 59 local and international media outlets and human rights organizations in a statement supporting Lebanon’s independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid intensifying legal harassment against them. A lawsuit by several lawyers against Daraj and Megaphone, before the Public Prosecutor’s Office, accused the outlets of “undermining the financial standing of the state” and “receiving suspicious foreign…

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Lebanese authorities summon 2 journalists in separate cases

On March 30, 2023, two officers with Lebanon’s General Directorate of State Security stopped Jean Kassir, founder of the news website Megaphone, while he was driving in the capital city of Beirut, according to Megaphone and Kassir, who spoke to CPJ in person. The officers summoned Kassir to attend questioning at the directorate’s office the…

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Hezbollah supporters beat Lebanese video journalist covering elections

Beirut, May 17, 2022 – Lebanese authorities must conduct a transparent investigation into the assault of video journalist Hussein Bassal by Hezbollah supporters while he was covering Sunday’s elections and allow all journalists to work freely without any fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On Sunday, May 15, Bassal, who works…

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