French-Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri walks free and is given back his confiscated passports after a military court hearing over his filming of a movie in Israel.
The 54-year-old was briefly detained last night after arriving in Lebanon to premiere his new film “The Insult.” He was released but his passports were confiscated and he was ordered to appear before a military court over his 2013 movie “The Attack,” which he filmed partly in Israel.
After today’s hearing of several hours at a Beirut military court, Doueiri walks free, brandishing his two passports.
“My client was released. No charges have been filed against him,” Doueiri’s lawyer Najib Lyan tells reporters, adding that the case would be “definitively closed.”
However, a judicial source told AFP “it is possible that the issue will be referred to a military court, for the crime of entering an enemy country without prior authorization.”
— AFP
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