BEIRUT - A Lebanese military court on Monday sentenced a journalist to two weeks in prison for purchasing firearms during an assignment to investigate the trafficking of weapons, a judicial official said.
Rami Aysha was abducted on August 30 in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, while investigating a story on arms trafficking and was turned over to the authorities who sent him to prison.
International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Friday that "during this process, he was repeatedly interrogated and tortured."
Aysha was released on bail on September 27, and then sentenced in absentia last week by a military court to six months in jail "on a charge of purchasing firearms," RSF said.
After returning from abroad, he faced a new trial on Monday, and was sentenced to two weeks in prison, according to the judicial officials.
Aysha is a freelancer who works for the international media, including Time magazine and Spiegel Online. He rejects the accusations that he purchased firearms.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/524806-lebanon-military-court-gives-reporter-two-weeks-in-jail
Rami Aysha was abducted on August 30 in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, while investigating a story on arms trafficking and was turned over to the authorities who sent him to prison.
International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Friday that "during this process, he was repeatedly interrogated and tortured."
Aysha was released on bail on September 27, and then sentenced in absentia last week by a military court to six months in jail "on a charge of purchasing firearms," RSF said.
After returning from abroad, he faced a new trial on Monday, and was sentenced to two weeks in prison, according to the judicial officials.
Aysha is a freelancer who works for the international media, including Time magazine and Spiegel Online. He rejects the accusations that he purchased firearms.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/524806-lebanon-military-court-gives-reporter-two-weeks-in-jail
