Journalist, nerd. Co-host of @LebPoliticsPod.
Beirut
Joined October 2008
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Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
I went to Tripoli today to speak to some of the approximately 270 Syrian families who were driven out of Bsharri after a Syrian man killed a Lebanese man in a personal dispute Monday. My latest: today.lorientlejour.com/arti… via @lorienttoday
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Venezuelans implicated in a mind-bogglingly huge money laundering scheme, one of whom is wanted by Caracas and indicted in Andorra while another is the brother of a fugitive former oil czar, established a mysterious web of offshore firms in Lebanon bit.ly/3kN2DCw
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Had a great conversation with @Nizhsn and @benredd yesterday. We are all getting tired of talking about forensic audits, but it's important to document the details so we don't forget. Banking secrecy is a secondary issue at this point. The problem is there's no will to cooperate.
Episode 95 is out now! @Nizhsn & @benredd are joined by @AzarsTweets, NERD and finance professional, to talk the ins and outs of the postponed forensic audit of BDL, Lebanon's central bank (with honorable mention of the🐙) 🎙️ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspo…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
My latest: Aid checks were given to families of the victims of the Beirut port blast...but banks wouldn't cash them today.lorientlejour.com/arti… via @lorienttoday
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
In letters to/meetings with @hrw, #Lebanon's security forces denied wrongdoing during the #Beirut Aug8 protests that injured >700 & instead traded blame for the abuse
But overwhelming evidence we gathered contradicts their claims. Latest for @lorienttoday
today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
My latest: A Russian-organized conference in Damascus, with Lebanon's participation, seeks to promote Syrian refugee returns. I look at previous efforts to do this in Lebanon, why they haven't worked, and why this one likely won't either today.lorientlejour.com/arti… via @lorienttoday
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Episode 94 is available now! @Nizhsn & @benredd analyze the sanctions against Bassil, the delays to BDL's forensic audit & government formation and the ongoing lack of accountability over the Beirut port explosion 🎙️ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspo…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
It's not the first time Aoun's relations with the US reach such a low level. He was the scapegoat of a Syrian-American rapprochement over Lebanon in the late 1980s.
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
According to @Legal_Agenda, families of victims killed in the Beirut port blast received relief payments three months later...by checks that the banks won't allow them to cash legal-agenda.com/%D8%B4%D9%8…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Private hospitals across #Lebanon are postponing surgeries and prioritizing certain treatments following a recent central bank decision requiring cash lira from medical importers
“Why should the patient go through this?” said Sami Rizk, CEO of @LAUMCRH
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Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Indictments in the #BeirutBlast probe are set to be limited to low/mid-level officials charged with "willful negligence," judicial sources say.
This carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.
No top pol/security officials are officially suspects.
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Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
The US blacklisted two Hezbollah officials overnight, the latest targeted designations involving Lebanon — but what are sanctions and how does the US wield them? @AlbinSzakola explains today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
A new revolution fist is raised at dawn in Martyrs' Square to replace the one that was burned down yesterday evening.
Read @OmarTamo19 & @EmCLew on last night's events today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Le poing de la révolution de nouveau érigé sur la place des Martyrs lorientlejour.com/article/12… #Liban 🇱🇧
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
More than $100 million in cash was injected into exchange market over the past three months — Where did it all go?
@OmarTamo19 investigates the cash injection mechanism ostensibly aimed at lowing the exchange rate. (It failed.)
today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Start your week off right ☕️
Here’s what happened over the weekend and what to expect today, Monday, Oct. 19, and this week. #MorningBrief today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Anger and anguish on the anniversary of the thawra
with @EmCLew @OmarTamo19 @AlbinSzakola today.lorientlejour.com/arti…
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Since the #Lebanon uprising began 1 year ago:
-Red Cross treated 5339 people (Total injured likely much higher).
-Some 1,400 protesters, journalists, activist arrested, interrogated, sued (Source: lawyers committee to defend protesters)
-Zero top officials held accountable.
Benjamin Redd 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Today’s a big day for us at @lorientlejour. It’s the moment we’re launching @lorienttoday, L’Orient-Le Jour’s English news outlet.
bit.ly/3nS6rFA