Lebanon - Military court to try investigative reporter

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the fact that the Lebanese journalist Rami Aysha to be tried by court martial in Beirut tomorrow on a charge of “purchasing firearms,” which carries a possible three-year jail term. Employed by such international news media as Time Magazine, Spiegel Online and Global Post, Aysha was arrested in a southern part of the capital on 30 August 2012, while researching for a story on arms trafficking, and was released on bail of 1 million Lebanese pounds (...)

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