Why Are Lebanese TV Channels Providing a Murderer With a Platform to Defend Himself? Published February 8th, 2021 - 07:26 GMT
Online users have called on TV channels to prioritize being against domestic violence over the extensive viewership gained during interviews. (Twitter)
Having successfully fled to Turkey hours after strangling his wife to death, a Lebanese man has been hosted by two different local TV channels over the phone, as TV presenters gave him air time to narrate the events of how he has killed his wife. Yet, social media users protested TV channels decision to host him in several talk shows saying; he should only be persecuted and not given space to defend his crime.