Kinda El-Khatib (Arabic: كندة الخطيب; born 1996/7), a Lebanese activist, was convicted in December 2020 of collaboration with Israel.
[1] El-Khatib, a critic of Michel Aoun, the political class of Lebanon, and Hezbollah, was released on appeal in March 2021.
[3] At the time of her arrest, according to her sister Yasmine, El-Khatib was 23 years old, and was a Masters student in English Literature at the Lebanese University.
[7] There were reports in Al Akhbar in September that El-Khatib was accused of facilitating an interview that Charbel Al-Hajj, who is Lebanese, had given on Israeli television.
After her conviction, and sentence of three years in prison with hard labour, her lawyer Jocelyne Rahi announced they would appeal.