A newly crowned Lebanese beauty queen has been stripped of her crown after it was revealed she violated the country’s laws by taking an academic visit to Israel.
Amanda Hanna, a dual Swedish-Lebanese citizen, was crowned Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 before she ran afoul of Lebanon’s strict restrictions on travel to Israel, according to media reports. Lebanese law prohibits citizens from visiting Israel or even communicating with Israelis. Contact with Israelis is illegal and can carry jail time. Pageant organizers say Hanna violated those laws by using her Swedish passport to take an academic trip to Israel in 2016.
“After communicating our decision with Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism, he decided that Hanna should be stripped of her title because her visit to Israel violates our country’s laws,” pageant organizers told Lebanese newspaper Al Modon.
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