BEIRUT: The Maharat Foundation, a media watchdog, slammed Monday a policy that forces detained bloggers and Internet activists to sign a “promise of silence” before being releases, saying such documents violated freedom of speech.

Bloggers who are detained after a government official or a company file a complaint over comments on social media are forced by the Internal Security Forces’ Cyber Crimes Bureau to sign a document vowing never to verbally attack the complainant.

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