However, Lebanon has still not established the mechanism or allocated funding. A pattern of prosecutions for criticizing officials is threatening freedom of speech and opinion in Lebanon. In , authorities continued to detain and charge individuals for speech critical of government officials.
Defaming or criticizing the Lebanese president or army is a criminal offense carrying penalties of up to three years in prison. The Lebanese penal code also criminalizes libel and defamation, authorizing imprisonment of up to three months, and up to one year in the case of public officials. Lebanon continues to try civilians, including children, in military courts , in violation of their due process rights and international law. Military trials take place behind closed doors, and military judges are not required to have law degrees.
Those who have stood trial in the military courts describe incommunicado detention, the use of confessions extracted under torture, decisions issued without an explanation, seemingly arbitrary sentences, and a limited ability to appeal. In , the United States handed over eight Lebanese Islamic State suspects from northern Syria to Lebanese Military Intelligence to be prosecuted before military courts.
According to local media, Military Intelligence held them for over a month without any communication with their families or judicial authorities. Women continue to face discrimination under the 15 distinct religion-based personal status laws. Discrimination includes inequality in access to divorce, child custody, and property rights. Unlike men, Lebanese women also cannot pass on their nationality to foreign husbands and children, and are subject to discriminatory inheritance laws.
Lebanon has no minimum age for marriage for all its citizens. Instead, religious courts set the age based on the religion-based personal status laws, some of which allow girls younger than 15 to marry. Parliament has failed to take up draft bills that would set the age of marriage at A Law on the Protection of Women and Family from Domestic Violence established important protection measures and introduced policing and court reforms.
But it failed to criminalize all forms of domestic violence, including marital rape. Some women continued to face obstacles in pursuing criminal complaints of domestic violence. In July, a district court of appeal issued a groundbreaking ruling that consensual sex between people of the same sex is not unlawful. Ninety-three percent incurred debt to buy food, and a large number resorted to skipping a meal.
Many married off daughters below 18, withdrew children from school, and sent them to work or even to beg on the streets. Other activists say even though the refugees are suffering incomparably more than any other time in their so far year-long exile, the interest of the global community in the welfare of the refugees has waned.
Fadi Hallisso, co-founder of an NGO called Basmeh and Zeitooneh that works for the Syrian refugees, said they face much more uncertainty in Lebanon than anytime before. Some are just racist against the poorer and more conservative neighbour, while others have bought the claims of politicians that the Syrians have been stealing their jobs. Paul Kousafi, a Lebanese national and head carpenter at the same heritage building that Rehman works at, said he employs Syrians to chisel the doors and windows because they charge half of what the Lebanese would.
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