Lebanon: Proposed media law poses grave threat to freedom of expression

The Lebanese Parliament’s Administration and Justice Committee is on the verge of concluding discussions behind closed doors on a new media law that, if approved by the Parliament’s General Assembly in its current state, would severely curtail freedom of expression and press freedom in Lebanon and undermine crucial human rights safeguards, the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon said today. The latest draft of the law, reviewed by members of the Coalition, includes many alarming

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