BEIRUT — Authorities in Lebanon issued a search warrant for a prominent anchor for interviewing an Israeli official on live television. The summons comes as journalists in Lebanon are being subject to harassment and intimidation on social media amid the ongoing escalation between Hezbollah forces and the Israeli military along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Layal al-Ekhtiar, a Lebanese journalist with Al-Arabiya satellite TV channel, announced on Thursday evening that a military prosecutor had issued her an investigative search warrant after she interviewed an Israeli military official last month.
تبلغت للتو أن مذكرة بحث وتحرٍ صدرت بحقي من قبل النيابة العامة العسكرية في لبنان. بعد ما يسمى الإخبار الذي تقدم به ضدي محسوبون على حزب الله، تحت مسميات مقنّعة….
— Layal Alekhtiar - ليال الاختيار (@layal_alekhtiar) November 16, 2023
ان هذه الخطوة هي اضطهاد سياسي سافر، بأسلوب القمع القضائي. وهي لا تمت الى الحق والحقيقة والعدالة بصلة …
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Ekhtiar said in a post to the X platform that the warrant stems from complaints filed by people she claims are supporters of Hezbollah.
