We, the undersigned international and national human rights organizations, and families of the victims of the August 2020 ...

Lebanon's new government should take all necessary measures to strengthen judicial independence and ensure that the ...

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The blast, one of the largest ... Both are viewed as outside Lebanon’s entrenched political establishment, which includes dozens of figures charged in the port fiasco by Bitar.

Hajjar, has overturned a previous decision by former Prosecutor General Ghassan Oweidat that had halted cooperation with Judge Tarek Bitar, the lead investigator in the Beirut Port explosion case. The ...

Click to expand Image Relatives of the victims of the deadly 2020 Beirut blast hold portraits of their loved ones on the fourth anniversary of the blast, August 4, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo / Hussein ...

BEIRUT — Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon's capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast. Hundreds of tons of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates ...