Working for Amnesty was a huge highlight to my portfolio, especially because it tackles the very pertinent issue of freedom of expression.
Lebanese authorities and powerful individuals, including political, judicial, religious and security figures, are weaponizing the criminal insult, slander and libel laws to harass, intimidate and silence people who criticize them or try to expose their misconduct or alleged corruption. These problematic provisions in the Penal Code, Publications Law, and the Military Code of Justice, which carry sentences of up to three years in prison, fail to meet international standards and unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression. Call for abolishing all provisions that criminalize insult and defamation in Lebanese laws.
I handled the creative direction, storyboard, design and animation.
Project management, sound design and subtitling by Beirut Film Institute.
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