In the last few years, journalists, artists, activists, and others in Lebanon have been detained or spent some time on trial for freedom of expression under different laws. This is a list of names starting 2009 that we find in our research. Please get in touch if you want to add more names we missed. Note that this list will covers only the detainees and the people who spent time on trial.
This research was done by Joey Ayoub and Mohamad Najem
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