Ahmad Rami al-Hajj and Tannous Meshleb clarify the amnesty law

Amid reports of disagreements between the Cassation’s Public Prosecution Office and the Constitutional Council over the interpretation of the general amnesty law, Top Prosecutor Ahmad Rami al-Hajj and Constitutional Council President Tannous Meshleb held a press conference at the council’s headquarters in Hadath on Thursday to clear up misunderstandings.The press conference was attended by three of the Constitutional Council’s nine other members — Mireille Najm-Shecrallah, Elie Meherkani and Aouni Ramadan — as well as Rahif Ramadan, an advocate general at the Court of Cassation. This press conference followed controversy over the Constitutional Council’s “binding interpretative reservations” concerning the amnesty law. The Constitutional Council had issued these reservations after the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) filed an appeal to...