Georges Dib, alias Dr. Food, in the crosshairs of Lebanese justice. (Credit: Archive photo al-Markazia)
BEIRUT — The Mount Lebanon Criminal Court has sentenced Georges Hanna Dib, a blogger known as "Dr Food," and several other defendants to life at hard labor in absentia in a drug case.
The ruling, issued by a court presided over by Judge Elie al-Helou, also applies to Kamal Abbas Ramadan, Abdel Karim Zaher al-Salem, Ahmad Dolf al-Youssef, Hassan Atiyeh Diab, and others. The defendants were found guilty under Article 150 of the drug law. The court also fined each of them 120 million Lebanese pounds and stripped them of their civil rights.
In February 2025, Mount Lebanon investigative judge Ziad Dghaidy requested a life sentence at hard labor for Georges Dib on charges of “manufacturing, trafficking, and smuggling drugs abroad.” A judicial source told L’Orient-Le Jour at the time that the drugs were concealed in cake packaging and stored in a warehouse near Beirut International Airport.
A total of 820 kilograms of hashish were seized in 2024. Dib allegedly had the packaging produced at a facility in the Charawneh neighborhood of Baalbeck, in the Bekaa Valley. He was already the subject of an arrest warrant issued by Judge Dghaidy in May 2024 on the same charges. Reports had circulated about a possible flight by “Dr Food” to Dubai, and several sources told L’Orient-Le Jour in 2025 that he was abroad.
