View of the port of Beirut after the explosion on Aug. 4, 2020. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L’Orient-Le Jour)
After former minister Nouhad Mashnouk was questioned on April 17, it was the turn of the former prime minister (Jan. 21, 2019-Aug. 10, 2020), Hassan Diab, on Friday to be interrogated by the investigative judge at the Court of Justice, Tarek Bitar, who is in charge of the probe into the Beirut port explosion on Aug. 4, 2020. It is the first time that a former prime minister was interrogated. Diab appeared before the judge after more than three years of refusing to appear, marked by legal appeals and political protections that obstructed the course of justice. Read more Nohad Machnouk, first politician to be questioned by Tarek Bitar While Judge Bitar never abandoned the investigation, he was unable to execute his decisions due to a ban imposed by the former head of the Prosecutor's Office, Ghassan Oueidat, on the judicial police...
After former minister Nouhad Mashnouk was questioned on April 17, it was the turn of the former prime minister (Jan. 21, 2019-Aug. 10, 2020), Hassan Diab, on Friday to be interrogated by the investigative judge at the Court of Justice, Tarek Bitar, who is in charge of the probe into the Beirut port explosion on Aug. 4, 2020. It is the first time that a former prime minister was interrogated. Diab appeared before the judge after more than three years of refusing to appear, marked by legal appeals and political protections that obstructed the course of justice. Read more Nohad Machnouk, first politician to be questioned by Tarek Bitar While Judge Bitar never abandoned the investigation, he was unable to execute his decisions due to a ban imposed by the former head of the Prosecutor's Office, Ghassan Oueidat, on the judicial...
