Lebanon: Speech Restrictions, Stalled Reforms
January 18, 2018
January 18, 2018
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 18 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
Restrictions on freedom of expression have tightened in Lebanon in the past year amid stalled rights reforms, despite some legislative progress on torture and women's rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2018. Lebanese authorities prosecuted people for peaceful speech, and in June, soldiers beat protesters demonstrating in downtown Beirut against a third extension of . . .
Restrictions on freedom of expression have tightened in Lebanon in the past year amid stalled rights reforms, despite some legislative progress on torture and women's rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2018. Lebanese authorities prosecuted people for peaceful speech, and in June, soldiers beat protesters demonstrating in downtown Beirut against a third extension of . . .