It has been nearly a year now since the National Security Agency in Egypt arrested Egyptian cartoonist named Ashraf Omar for his drawings criticizing the regime, then months later a journalist who interviewed Omar’s wife was arrested then the wife herself was also shortly detained, to be added to the 60,000 detainees in Egyptian prisons…
Notwithstanding the fact that the right to peaceful assembly is enshrined in the Lebanese constitution and international conventions to which Lebanon has acceded, recent years have witnessed repeated violations of this right, especially following the October 2019 uprising and the Beirut port explosion. These peaceful popular movements have frequently been met with excessive force, with…
