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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July 28, 2010

Now Lebanon - Report says arrested man defamed Sleiman via fax, not Facebook

On Wednesday, Military Investigative Judge Ghassan Oueidat questioned Ahmad Shuman – who was arrested at Beirut’s airport on Tuesday – for allegedly defaming President Michel Sleiman via a fax machine, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

Earlier reports said he was charged with defaming the president on the social networking website Facebook.

According to the NNA, Shuman filed a request to be released on bail.
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