BEIRUT - Lebanese media broadcast interviews with the U.S. ambassador on Sunday, ignoring a ruling by a judge who banned the diplomat from television for a year over remarks that criticised the powerful Shi’ite movement Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is the main political force behind the Lebanese government. Washington considers the heavily armed pro-Iran movement to be a terrorist group. A Shi’ite judge in the southern city of Tyre ruled on Saturday that Shea’s comments had incited sectarian strife, and banned broadcasting interviews with her for a year. State-owned National News Agency said media that violate the ban would be fined $200,000.
Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad tweeted that while she understood the judge’s concerns about diplomats meddling in Lebanon’s internal affairs “no one had the right to prevent the media from covering news, or to curb press freedoms”.
She is very impolite diplomat
Judge banned the diplomat from television for a year over remarks that criticised the powerful Shi’ite movement Hezbollah which has the status of “Terror organization” by the United States. 🧐
Following by example
Of course the US has no respect to the rule of law of other peoples countries.
That’s not very diplomatic!
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