Reporter Karma al-Khayat
Reuters, 28/09 13:34 CET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A journalist who
ignored a court order to take down videos that risked exposing the
identities of witnesses in the case of Lebanese prime minister Rafik
al-Hariri’s murder should serve a year in prison, a Hague prosecutor
said on Monday.
Television reporter Karma al-Khayat was convicted of
contempt of court 10 days ago for ignoring a court order to take down
video interviews with witnesses, exposing them to danger and undermining
confidence in the court.
The reporter had shown “no remorse or regret”, and should
also pay a 100,000-euro (73,696 pounds) fine, prosecutor Slobodan
Zecevic told a sentencing hearing at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on
Monday.
Khayat, who is not under detention, was acquitted of the
separate crime of publishing material that exposed witnesses, but
Zecevic said that the gravity of the crime, made all the worse by the
“tense security situation in Lebanon” merited a jail term.
Her defence lawyer Karim Khan said the single remaining conviction standing against her was a “lesser” offence.
“Stripped down of the hyperbole, what this case comes
down to is a single finding of willful blindness to a court order,” he
said.
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Source: Euronews
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