Four Lebanese Jailed For Rude Commentary On Facebook
Weird bit of news from Lebanon…
Four Lebanese university students have been jailed for a week for making crude remarks on the Facebook social networking site about the singing talents of a woman they met at a party, media reports said on Thursday.Local newspapers reported that the students, all male, were ordered to be detained on January 10 after the young woman’s father objected to the authorities in the western town of Zahle.
The four were charged with slander and “violating public morality” and were ordered to be held in preventive detention despite objections by human-rights groups.
[Source: Now Lebanon]
When people get thrown into jail for stuff like this you can’t help but feel how long the road ahead still is.
Should this really be an issue? Don’t these judges have anything more important to do?
[Via: AndFarAway, Beirut Spring]
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5 Responses to “Four Lebanese Jailed For Rude Commentary On Facebook”
momo on Jan 18, 2008 | Reply
Obviously not. There are too many occations where I say to myself exactly the same phrase, ‘don’t they have anything better to do?!?’
Janissary on Jan 19, 2008 | Reply
So, what does the girl’s father do for a living?
Zuko on Feb 15, 2008 | Reply
Anything more important to do???…don’t be so ignorant. Anyone who verbally slanders or attempts to demoralize another person deserves to be treated like a criminal. They, or people who condone their actions by claiming that judges have nothing better to do are an embarrassment to mankind and show little or no intelligence.
yup on Dec 23, 2008 | Reply
well the comment in question and not listed here in detail.. if i had it i would post it.. but it is.. “I think this singer really sux”
Should never be a jailable offense…
“this singer’s voice sounds like nails on a chalk board, and she’s ugly like a bronco’s butt”
Is demoralizing. and is under various laws.. jailable, but arguably. But is no longer just yur opinion when u are depicting things in a vulgar way with the person being the subject of your desciption.. blame the people who commited suicide after reading harsh comments..
At times being mean is un-called for. And at those times your words can be very heavy.
I’m glad someone is trying to make personal comments on the web socially accountable.
But not this.. this is stupid. If she sux at singing she sux.. thats it.. and needs lessons and practice and is not offenseive.
If your drunk dont expect to sing well…
In my opinion this is a case of rich person against middle class.. and the rich person was offended.. and her potential career could not be afffected by one’s opinions when there are so many others.. but this wasn’t thought of..
If you offend someone of higher status then you. personally of on the internet.. you will be punished.. is this the lesson we are to bring away from this persons sentenceing?
Ana on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
your comment shows no intelligence what-so-ever. It’s called freedom of speech. That’s not something that warrants jail time!