Feras Hatoum

Feras Hatoum is a Lebanese journalist currently working at New TV (a Lebanon-based satellite channel), he came into the spotlight for his coverage of the Israeli war in Lebanon on July 2006, he then followed up as key witness in the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, Mohammad Zohair Al Sideek and was held in custody after committing breaking and entering during an investigative mission in the home of Al Sideek. He is a third-place winner of a 2007 Les Lauréats du Inquirer Award for his research into prison conditions.