It has been known that Beirut is the capital of freedom. Historically, it was the media platform of the local and Arab political movements.
However, the Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati and his interior minister Bassam Al-Mawlawi reversed the direction, banning a press conference for the Bahraini opposition.
In details, a group of Bahraini opposition figures held a press conference in Beirut, exposing the crimes of Al-Manama regime against the citizens in the Kingdom. The regime foreign ministry sent a letter to the Lebanese authorities that condemned the press conference and its content.
PM Mikati ordered the competent judiciary and authorities to hold a probe with the Bahraini figures who participated in the press conference. For his part, Al-Mawlawi received the foreign minister Abdullah Abu Habibb and maintained he would not accept that Lebanon “turns to be a platform which insults the Bahraini Kingdom”.
Do Mikati and Al-Mawlawi know that the Western media and protesters abuse the Gulf leaders in person and via the available outlets without facing any objection?
Will restricting political freedoms be the new trend in Lebanon in accordance with the Gulf regime inclinations?
Source: Al-Manar English Website
