Lebanon: New campaign calls on parliament to reform insult and defamation laws

The Lebanese authorities must immediately halt all prosecutions of journalists, human rights defenders, activists, and others who are critical of state officials, Amnesty International today, as the organization launches #MyOpinionIsNotaCrime, a new campaign that calls on the Lebanese Parliament to abolish all laws that criminalize insult and defamation. The new campaign comes amid a spate of prosecutions of those critical of political, security, judicial and religious figures in the country,

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