People in Jezzine Summoned for Facebook Accounts

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The Army Intelligence Directorate in the area of Jezzine in southern Lebanon has summoned some youths in the region for investigation over information and friends listed on their Facebook profiles, An Nahar daily said Wednesday.

The investigation did not spare well-educated people, with respected jobs including a professor at a private university, employees in the private and public sectors, and an employee bank, reported the daily.

The summoned are not only subject to moral and material damage but are also required to take time off from work for a whole day in order to head to Sidon for the required investigation that begins at 8 in the morning and ends at almost 2 in the afternoon.

They sit in waiting for their turn, obliged to tolerate the required measures in investigation just like criminals and suspects do, added An Nahar.

According to unnamed sources, more than 10 individuals from Jezzine have been questioned so far, knowing that a list of 86 names has been prepared for questioning merely for having a facebook account,it said.

Comments 41
Thumb jcamerican 30 May 2012, 13:28

I guess, most of the lebanese will be questioned soon, specially the commentators on naharnet. lol

Default-user-icon greenie (Guest) 30 May 2012, 13:42

Lucky FT and Mouwate ,one Syrian and another Iranian !!!!!!!

Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 30 May 2012, 13:50

shabiha style

Default-user-icon joe (Guest) 30 May 2012, 14:20

The Army Intelligence officers are the biggest retarded loosers in this country.

Default-user-icon joe (Guest) 30 May 2012, 20:23

I will respect them when they start teaching them in their military school on how to respect and tolerate FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Note: Im a US citizen too, and i know what it means to have freedom of speech.

Default-user-icon Roland (Guest) 30 May 2012, 14:39

this doesn't list the entire story, do you know why they were summoned?
obviously it's not for having a facebook account, hence the reason makes a difference.
for example, summoning people because they post statuses supporting the murder of someone or supporting kaeida, is different than summoning them for dissing a politician!
i'm all for the first, though obviously against people being summoned for the second.
so once again, this story (should be labeled as hear/say) isn't clear...

Thumb charbel 30 May 2012, 14:43

I'd like to know why were they summoned? because of their criticism and voicing their political opinion?

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 15:06

Interesting development. I think after my comments here on Naharnet, I dont have any friends amongst our politicians.

Wait, someone is knocking on my door...
...Sidon here I come!

Default-user-icon Gebran Sons for Cedar Revolution II in 2013 (Guest) 30 May 2012, 15:21

Lebanon's democracy and freedom is in mortal danger by a government formed by a criminal regime and a criminal organization. How long would it take people to realize that Hizbollah is not much different from the oppressive regime in North Korea and Aoun is another copy of mad Kaddafi. They are both leading their communities to the abyss instead of Lebanon being the shining star on the hill, guiding the Arab Spring to freedom and democracy, modernizing our laws, joining the global village of civilized nations, becoming an effective member of the global economy, and transforming Lebanon into the Silicon Valley and Intellectual Hub of the Middle East. . But first we need to stop Aoun & Hizbollah’s poison and their mafia from killing everything good in Lebanon and transforming us into another Somalia.

Default-user-icon Deemo Fasta (Guest) 30 May 2012, 20:36

Ouf! kel hol? Another Somalia? How are things in Tripoli and Akkar, aka Paradise Lost?

Default-user-icon shamshouma (Guest) 30 May 2012, 15:25

who wrote this awful piece?! seriously?! the police didnt just arrest poor people who no one cared about?! they arrested middle class people who have a job and a professor?! this is a classist way of reporting news and it's totally biased. being interrogated because of facebook is certainly an appalling thing that should be discredited but reporting the news this way makes it even worse. God forbid a middle class person is persecuted, but who cares about the "poor people". fuck this.

Thumb jabal10452 30 May 2012, 20:52

You're right!

Thumb jabal10452 30 May 2012, 20:52

You're right!

Thumb jabal10452 30 May 2012, 20:54

My last post was meant to be a reply to shamshouma.

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 15:29

Frightening if it´s true.

Default-user-icon Jamil (Guest) 30 May 2012, 15:41

"The investigation did not spare well-educated people, with respected jobs including a professor at a private university, employees in the private and public sectors, and an employee bank, reported the daily."

what is more appalling than the investigations is this paragraph
should only poor people with bad or no jobs be interrogated and investigated??? so having money and a social stature give you the right to be a class A citizen. this paragraph summaries all that is wrong in Lebanon

Default-user-icon NoName (Guest) 30 May 2012, 16:20

So if you friend an Israeli Arab, then that is enough for the Lebanese Gestapo to haul you in? Democracy my ass.

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 17:18

I think we have a problem here. Many Lebanese who study abroad for example, or even take part in discussions on the internet could have israeli friends on facebook.

This can be treason yes, if you live in Nazi germany or the Sovjet Union ( of the past).

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 20:07

Dont worry man, My joking comment was anyway removed in some suspicious way by Naharnet.

I still hold, you could love your country and have "friends" from everywhere.

This is really an insult to the personal freedom of all Lebanese.

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 20:08

If it´s by anyway chance...

Missing ulpianus 30 May 2012, 20:09

..true...

Default-user-icon Proud to be Lebanese (Guest) 30 May 2012, 22:54

How many Israelis have been questioned for befriending a lebanese on facebook ? None. What a load of BS!

Missing rognation 30 May 2012, 16:49

Down with the hizbalshitan rule, your end is near....

Default-user-icon bangbang (Guest) 30 May 2012, 16:49

way to go leb army. u really have nothing else to do? no criminals, drug dealers? or rapest left in the country?they r all arrested i take it.u r a joke

Thumb geha 30 May 2012, 16:59

well mowaten, based on your comment: you and FT should not post here as you are both not lebanese! one is iranian and the other syrian....

Thumb geha 30 May 2012, 17:01

guys, don't you feel freedom of expression is getting really smaller since this government took over?

Thumb geha 30 May 2012, 17:01

guys, don't you feel freedom of expression is getting really smaller since this government took over?

Thumb jabal10452 30 May 2012, 17:31

Geha: "Iran" and "freedom of thought" are not exactly compatible concepts.

Default-user-icon NR (Guest) 30 May 2012, 18:11

To be Fair : "Most of the arab countries (including Lebanon)" and "freedom of thought" are not exactly compatible concepts.

Thumb jabal10452 31 May 2012, 15:29

uh... you know exactly my opinion of the bedouins. It doen't make the Iranians any less evil. Their agendas and mentalities don't belong here. We Lebanese are crazy and we like it this way. We don't like to conform to the disciplines that others are trying to impose on us. La wahabi wla ayatollah wla battikh. 7éllo 3anna. 3réft kif?

Thumb jabal10452 30 May 2012, 17:28

God forbid they might happen to have a facebook friend with a Jewish-sounding last name.

Default-user-icon Bro Rabih (Guest) 30 May 2012, 17:44

Surveillance is happening in every country,
for security concerns. In the US, Britain, Germany,
all countries. Let the Army do its work and stop
theorizing..."itnazro" yalli ma fi salli ta7t batto ma tene3ro.
Shatreen n'alid el gharb bil habbal, leish ma menshouf
7alna bi moukhabartna el sehrani 3ala ammen el Wattan.

Default-user-icon NR (Guest) 30 May 2012, 18:14

According to this article the people were summoned "over information and friends listed". If I have to take a wild guess, I ll say that one of their friend is suspected to have collaborated with Israel.

Missing constantine 30 May 2012, 19:35

This is rediculous if we didnt know any better we would have thought that Lebanon is cracking down on Facebook. Really pathetic......who wites these articles?

Default-user-icon ghassan (Guest) 30 May 2012, 20:43

The collaborators with Israel and the spies are from Hizballah and FPM. Israel is not going to recruite a spy who can't infiltrate Hizballah. The Hizb and FPM are both filled with spies and collaborators.

Default-user-icon bangbang (Guest) 30 May 2012, 22:12

you realy have nothing more impiortant to do.
we r under constant threat from a syrian invasion and the army are busy pocking their nose in our private business.who cares who s my facebook friends are. apparently the army is. what a joke

Default-user-icon Truedemocracy (Guest) 30 May 2012, 23:40

If you don't know the reason why they were summoned, don't jump to conclusions. I understand your old memories, but they are just that, old memories.

These guys were not pulled out from their houses, they were served notices.

Even in the USA, if you have a Facebook account with pictures or writing that are considered a threat, they also call you for an investigation. Especially now with the new FBI that roams the Internet.

Having said that, let's find out what the reason is for these people to be summoned and we can take it from there.

Default-user-icon Truedemocracy (Guest) 30 May 2012, 23:43

The title of this article is so wrong and misleading, it's not even funny.

The content is even more vague.

But, at least it triggered a waterfall of amusing comments.

Missing youssefhaddad 31 May 2012, 02:06

The internet scares the hell out of Dictators! the dictators wannabes in lebanon tremble when they read common sense criticism . What the hell is the army intelligence doing in this?

Thumb jabal10452 31 May 2012, 15:33

Wlék ya youssef maybe they have a fb friend called Rosenberg or Cohen. Come to think of it I "liked" Leonard Cohen's fb page. Ya délléééé.... Ra7ét 3layyé!

Missing helicopter 31 May 2012, 07:53

No more liquor stores to bomb, onward to facebook