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Judy Al-Asmar wrote in “Al-Nahar” an article under the title “The minister’s problem is getting tougher … Lynn Tahini was summoned for questioning due to a post about the deprivation of the late Bassam Saba of his wages”, in which he stated:
Demanding the right has become an injustice punishable by law. The policy of continuous silencing continues to try, in each repression, to write a police identity for the country of freedoms. Horrible practices that change standards in ways that are not logically acceptable have become a prominent feature in addressing issues of public opinion.
In the new policy aimed at bloggers and activists, the former adviser to the Minister of Culture Lynn Tahini will appear tomorrow morning in front of the Anti-Cybercrime Office, to investigate her on a post she wrote on her Facebook account, in which she reveals that the president of the Board of Directors of the National Conservatory # Bassam Saba, who died after catching Corona, and was deported without receiving the economic quotas that he had accumulated two years ago by the Ministry of Culture.
Hours after the publication of this publication, the legal advisor to the Minister of Culture, Abbas Mortada, Judge Walid Jaber, filed a libel and libel complaint against Tahini, noting that the direct and explicit publication did not mention any names and did not deviate of verbal property limits in any way.
In a clarifying call with Al-Nahar, Lynn Al-Tahini says: “Many knew that Bassam Saba did not receive his pension, but I was one of those who tried to help him obtain his rights, and this is evidenced in the continuous conversations on WhatsApp with the deceased, and she was documenting the delays she suffered for two years. I tried to help him with my limited skills, because the file was not in my possession but with the director of the minister’s office and his legal advisor who presented the case against me. Upon the death of Bassam Saba, I was very emotional because the man he was courteous, his morale was high and calm, but he died oppressed. He left America without financial resources or savings. During the past year he has repeatedly tried to meet with the Minister of Culture, guardian of the Conservatory, and the latter barely agreed to receive him, saying that the file is entrusted to the aforementioned consultant.
And he adds: “All my efforts and several people we tried to help him did not work because the minister’s decision and he can decide it with a“ pen ”. What happened was that three weeks before Professor Saba became ill, it was agreed to pay him compensation under a “conciliation contract” so that he would receive a salary for that purpose. The month of February covers a year and a month, knowing that they did not specify the pension he will receive, and this is another deficiency in the field, and the argument was that his position is special because his remuneration is higher than that received by the general directors , given the nature of his extensive work at the Conservatory and the multiplicity of his tasks. Between September 2019 and February 2020, this is a clear gap that did not cover his pension for seven months.
The minister “was blaming the secretary general of the Council of Ministers, but history indicates a fundamental error: it is not reasonable that the director of the Conservatory does not receive a pension for two years, then the direct person in charge of this file is the minister and not the Secretary General of the Council. His situation is shocking because the money was available in another way. ” The pension situation of general managers in the new ministries that do not receive their salary The National Conservatory is one of the oldest institutions in the country, so that their pension does not require legal decrees.
He describes this story as a tragedy caused by negligence, “The evidence is that after his death, after publishing the post and in response to pressure, the Minister met with the Conservatory’s board of directors and requested the payment of all compensation. necessary … But what good is it? “
In his appearance before the investigation tomorrow, he added: “I have confidence in the Lebanese judiciary and have dealt through the ministry with several honest and trustworthy judges. I hope that justice will finally be achieved. If the price of realizing the truth is that I spend a few hours in the cybercrime office, it’s worth it. And I’m willing to fight it. Because I have nothing to cover it up with. I raised a humanitarian problem. Certainly, Corona is a destination from which we cannot escape, but it is possible that Bassam Saba had not died unjustly. “
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