Summary
General Security briefly detained a journalist Friday over Facebook posts and articles that were critical of local political authorities.
Journalist Mohammad Awwad was detained and questioned by General Security at 6 a.m. Friday and was later released after signing a pledge.
Although Awwad was not notified of a specific post considered to be problematic, he said he was given the impression that it was more than one post.
Charbel Khoury was interrogated Thursday by the Internal Security Forces Anti-Cybercrimes Bureau over a Facebook post in which he made a sarcastic joke about the medical miracles of St. Charbel.
He was released after signing a pledge not to address religion in his posts and deactivate his Facebook account for a month.
Mhanna also addressed the violent threats sent to Khoury on social media after his post.
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