Lebanon’s parliament has just voted to abolish the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to end capital punishment - a monumental step for human rights in the country.
When LAU threatens to give students
warnings for simply freely expressing
their opinions on their instagram stories, threatens to give independent candidates warnings for an exaggerated incident that happened with another candidate,
I rarely discuss politics but this had to be said. Over the course of student council elections at LAU, some parties resorted to frivolous campaigning that is essentially prohibited due to the dangers they caused last year. This year students who protested against the pressure of
اليومLAU بتبعت email لتلميذة بتطلب منها تمحي ستوري عم تنتقد فيها الضغط لصار على التلاميذ نهار الانتخابات علماً إنه هل شي ممنوع وفقاً لل student code of conduct.بذات الوقت، تلاميذ تابعين لحزب الله بالجامعة، بيرفعوا أعلام الحزب وبردّدوا شعارات حزبية على مدخل الجامعة-الذي يندرج ضمن
Israeli authorities say Palestinian gunmen killed Abu Aqleh.
However, Abu Aqleh’s colleagues from Al Jazeera, an AFP photographer and @MiddleEastEye reporter- all who were with her - say Israeli snipers shot at them.
Unpopular opinion: constant videos of the Beirut blast every 4th of the month are unnecessary and do not achieve their purpose of pushing people to vote for the right candidates.
Oil prices globally sank by 13% last week while Lebanon's energy ministry only decreased its gasoline prices by 2.7% and diesel prices by 5.6% on Friday.
The ministry also kept fuel prices untouched today (the lira rate for fuel imports has no effect as it only dropped by 0.5%).
اللبنانية عم يستغلوا ازمة الوقود وارتفاع اسعارها المدفوعة بالازمة الاوكرانية - الروسية.. عم بيشتروا بنزين بكميات هائلة حتى يخزنوها ويبيعوها لما يرتفع السعر.. شعب مش طبيعي وبحياة عمره ما رح يكون طبيعي
Palestinians are treated as an inferiour race. Denied access to food and water. And yet no sanctions on Israel for its apartheid regime. Utter hypocrisy.