The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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June 24, 2010

Daily Star - Lebanon Al Mustaqbal fined for slander of Jamil al Sayyed

BEIRUT: The Beirut Publications Court fined both Al-Mustaqbal director and journalist LL 6 million on Wednesday for slander against former General Security Director General Jamil al-Sayyed. The court charged journalist Fares Khashan and the director of the Arabic daily Al-Mustaqbal, Tufiq Khattab, with slander and fined them LL6 million. They were accused of publishing an article in October 2009 containing material offensive to Sayyed and they were fined an additional LL1 million in personal indemnities. The two were also ordered to publish the court’s verdict. – The Daily Star

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