New TV Station Surrounded By Police Seeking to Arrest Eid
Elements of the Judicial Police surrounded New TV (al-Jadeed) in Beirut on Friday to arrest al-Fassad [Corruption] talk show presenter Ghada Eid.
Eid has a warrant for her arrest for slandering Judge Shaheed Salameh, following a verbal exchange on air over the assassination case of Nasri Marouni [Eid”s cousin] in Zahle and following Salameh”s decision to release those arrested in the case.
Police and security forces did not enter the television station while Eid was on the air.
However, the daily An-Nahar reported on Saturday that followed police procedures for entering into media stations are between the hours of 8:00 am to 5:00pm.