Posted By
Najib
Jul 21, 2019 05:55
When the budget was finally approved two days ago, I kept checking articles to see what happened to Article 94 which dealt with reducing the salaries of MPs, only to find out today that it was scrapped. Why was it removed from the 2019 budget? Get this. Because it is not within the parliament's jurisdiction to discuss such matters. Lebanese MPs are among the the highest paid in the world when compared to the national…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 21, 2019 05:21
2019 and 2018 witnessed alarming developments in the use of archaic media laws to arrest, interrogate and prosecute people over social media posts in Lebanon. According to digital rights group Social Media Exchange , the number of cases brought over online posts more than quadrupled between 2017 and 2018. We're talking about 6 cases in 2016, vs 9 in 2017, 41 in 2018 and 27 so far in 2019. What is needed is a new…
Critiques
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Critiques
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