{"id":25150,"date":"2011-07-28T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25150"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:23:34","slug":"lebanon-singer-briefly-detained-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25150","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: singer detained for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jHYxeBRBMIy67ulQkju0OFlFKg7Q?docId=CNG.b8ddcd45fb4de7570a444013d5b8e3ad.251\">held<\/a>\u00a0at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman, urging him in a song posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L83n4zhg8Jw\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0last year to &#8220;go home.&#8221; A statement posted on Hamdan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zeidhamdan?sk=wall\">Facebook<\/a> page by his lawyer, Nizar Saghieh, noted that the musician had been investigated three times in recent weeks.\u00a0He was released late on Wednesday, though Saghieh says his client faces a maximum of two years in prison if the prosecutor decides to file formal slander charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>According to the LA Times&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2011\/07\/lebanon-popular-musician-imprisoned-for-defaming-president-.html\">Babylon &amp; Beyond<\/a>\u00a0blog, Sagieh called Hamdan&#8217;s detention &#8220;a blatant violation of the right of freedom of expression.&#8221; He added, &#8220;this increasingly obvious over-sensitivity of the regime to any form of criticism of the president is the problem of the regime and not the citizen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held\u00a0at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman, urging him in a song posted on YouTube\u00a0last year to &#8220;go home.&#8221; A statement posted on Hamdan&#8217;s Facebook page by his lawyer, Nizar Saghieh, noted that the musician had been investigated three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3571,7381,3572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25159,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions\/25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}