Tara Brown and 60 Minutes crew face fine after Lebanon kidnapping charges downgraded

60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown and her crew have seen the charges they were facing in Lebanon, relating to their involvement in a “child recovery operation”, downgraded to misdemeanours.

Brown now faces a fine for her role in the ‘child recovery operation’ in Lebanon.

In the last 24 hours, the Lebanese court has announced the revised charges, which likely means that they will only have to pay a small fine, while also confirming the children’s Australia mother Sally Faulkner and the “child recovery operation specialists” still potentially face up to seven years in jail if they are convicted of the charge of kidnapping.

Nine’s 60 Minutes program has been embroiled in scandal for months now, over its decision to pay for the operation in Lebanon to retrieve Faulkner’s children in the streets of Beirut.