Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2017
Abstract
On August 29, 2016, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Tribunal) sentenced a corporate media enterprise and one of its employees for contemptuously interfering with the Tribunal's proceedings in Ayyash, a prosecution concerning the February 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The contempt decision is significant for two reasons: (1) it adopts an expansive definition of the crime of contempt to restrict a journalist's freedom of expression; and (2) it is the first international judicial decision to hold a corporate entity criminally responsible.
Recommended Citation
Hakimi, Monica. "In Re Akhbar Beirut & Al Amin." Am. J. Int'l L. 111, no. 1 (2017): 132-8.
Comments
This article is reproduced with permission from the January 2017 issue of the American Journal of International Law © 2017 American Society of International Law. All rights reserved.