The
Prison of Khiam.
.....
....Yes,
you are all equal, men and women, rich and poor, the healthy and the sick,
taught Christ. However, it was not until the 18th century and the French Revolution
that the Rights of Man were formally proclaimed and Man’s liberty affirmed,
liberty to think, to love and to act and so to make our civilisation. But
it needed only the briefest space of time in the 20th century for the barbaric
spirit of evil, of crime, of hatred, to make the tranquil village of Khiam
in South Lebanon, nestling among the olive trees, the vines and the fig trees
tended by its solid, hard-working peasants, into a prison camp worthy of the
Nazis and evilly reputed for the tortures and suffering inflicted on its inmates.
There the occupying forces imprisoned and tormented their fellow humans come
from the same stock of Abraham.....
....
Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.