Lebanon: Authorities must immediately dismiss complaint against independent media outlets

Amnesty urges Lebanon to drop case against Daraj, Megaphone

Amnesty International has called on Lebanese authorities to immediately drop a criminal complaint filed against two independent media outlets - Daraj Media and Megaphone News - warning that the move amounts to an attack on press freedom in the country. The two digital news platforms have been summoned for interrogation on Tuesday by Lebanon's Cassation Public Prosecution Office. The summons follows a complaint filed in March by three lawyers act…

Lebanon: Authorities must immediately dismiss complaint against independent media outlets

Lebanese authorities must immediately dismiss a criminal complaint filed against independent media outlets Daraj Media and Megaphone News, Amnesty International said today, following news that the two independent digital media outlets have been summoned for interrogation by the Cassation Public Prosecution Office on Tuesday 15 April in connection with the complaint.The complaint came shortly after the media outlets’ criticism of certain candidat…

Lebanon: the criminal justice system must not be used to intimidate and harass journalists

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is concerned by the instrumentalization of the prosecuting authorities to intimidate journalists solely for the legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of expression. On 15 April 2025, lawyers representing Megaphone News and Daraj Media, two independent digital media platforms, appeared before the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation after the Editors in Chief and Executive Directors of …

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Condemn Judicial Proceedings Against Daraj and Megaphone

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned the summoning of Daraj and Megaphone for investigation by the Lebanese Public Prosecutor's Office. Both organizations described the move as a dangerous escalation in the ongoing campaign of intimidation targeting independent journalism in the country.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International is launching a campaign on the imprisoned Mzia Aghlobeli and is writing to the head of Georgia's Special Investigation Service. In its appeal to Koka Katsitadze, the organization writes that the circumstances of the detention of Mzia the Great and the alleged mistreatment of her raise doubts about her targeted persecution. The organization demands that police officers who attacked…

The Lebanese Press Editors Syndicate, in a statement, reiterated its firm and principled position that “no journalist or media professional should appear before judicial police officers, especially before the IT Bureau, in the context of lawsuits filed against them by any party.” The statement added: “The Syndicate’s position is consistent with the provisions of the Publications Law and Articles 28-29 thereof, which limit the prosecution of medi…