{"id":31331,"date":"2014-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/31331\/graffiti-artist-yazan-halwani-unlawfully-detained-over-the-weekend"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:09:21","slug":"graffiti-artist-yazan-halwani-unlawfully-detained-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/31331\/graffiti-artist-yazan-halwani-unlawfully-detained-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Artist Yazan Halwani Unlawfully Detained Over the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, local street artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/14734\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Yazan Halwani<\/a> was detained by Lebanon&#8217;s Internal Security Forces for two and a half hours after members of an obscure political party interrupted an interview he was filming with regional television network Al-Hurra from his grandmother&#8217;s front doorstep. <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/31331.png\"><br \/>  <i>(<small><small>Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=633577466690480&#038;set=pb.318060401575523.-2207520000.1392038876.&#038;type=3&#038;src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-frc3%2Ft31%2F1008987_633577466690480_1946492975_o.jpg&#038;smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn2%2Ft1%2F1902995_633577466690480_1946492975_n.jpg&#038;size=1402%2C844\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/small><\/small>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>  Members of Jabhat al-Amal Al-Islami disrupted the interview by yelling insults and claiming that filming was prohibited. Halwani&#8217;s art studio is located in the neighborhood of Mousaytbeh in his grandmother\u2019s house, which happens to be below the party&#8217;s headquarters and also facing the home of a high ranking Interior Security Officer. The street, according to the graffiti artist, is constantly teeming with both armed party members and ISF.<\/p>\n<p>  He detailed the incident in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YazanOne\/posts\/634572743257619\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">post on Facebook<\/a> Sunday, expressing sentiments of dissatisfaction that many of us share. \u201cThis country is no longer ours,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.beirut.com\/GetImage\/yaztoo\/article\/31331\/500x300\"><br \/>  <i>Halwani painted this graffiti of famed Lebanese singer Fayrouz in the alleyway next to the 392Rmeil393 art gallery in Gemmayzeh in June of 2013.(<small><small>Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=518083034906591&#038;set=pb.318060401575523.-2207520000.1392039711.&#038;type=3&#038;src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-ash3%2Ft1%2F484854_518083034906591_1423657188_n.jpg&#038;size=960%2C640\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/small><\/small>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>  Beirut.com got in touch with Halwani, who sarcastically commented: &#8220;The good thing about Lebanon now is that not only do we have a Censorship Bureau, but even individual political parties are able to enforce censorship as they please, which is really nice, and adds \u201cIf you want to do politics and feel threatened, don&#8217;t endanger and annoy the people around you. Change where you live. This should be made a law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  For more of Halwani\u2019s work and masterful calligraphy pieces, visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YazanOne\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> page.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, local street artist Yazan Halwani was detained by Lebanon&#8217;s Internal Security Forces for two and a half hours after members of an obscure political party interrupted an interview he was filming with regional television network Al-Hurra from his grandmother&#8217;s front doorstep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-31331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[7],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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