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Conference about “Media and Corruption”
On 9/10/2012 Maharat Foundation conducted a conference to launch a book about “Media and Corruption” at the Lebanese University sponsored by the president of the faculty of media Dr. Adnan Alsayed Hasan and MP Ghassam Moukhaiber, the general manager of the ministry of information Dr. Hasan Falha, and the deans [...]
Maharat appreciates the inclusion of the access to information law proposal on the agenda of the parliamentary committee of administration and justice.
Beirut, September 26th-2012 Statement- Maharat Foundation Maharat appreciates the inclusion of the access to information law proposal on the agenda of the parliamentary committee of administration and justice. Maharat appreciates the decision of the MP Robert Ghanem president of the committee of administration and justice to include the access to [...]
Bahrain – Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab sentenced to 3 years in jail – for a Tweet
Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), was sentenced today to three years imprisonment on charges of illegal assembly. Maharat Foundation condemns the ongoing and intensified repression of human rights defenders by authorities in Bahrain and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Nabeel Rajab [...]
Maharat condemns the attack on MTV crew while covering live news
Maharat Foundation Beirut, 20-7-2012 MTV television station crew including the reporter Haytham Khawand and the cameraman Jad Abou Antoun, was attacked, the night of Thursday 19th of July, by protesters affiliated with the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), while they were reporting on a protest in front of Beirut’s Energy Ministry [...]
Maharat condemns the attack on the journalist Afif Diab because of his media work
Afif Diab, Al- Akhbar reporter in Al Bekaa was attacked and hit on his face and back and shoulder at Green’s Café in Chtoura on Saturday June 2nd 2012 by four guys, and the police did not take any action. This attack was done on the same day when an [...]