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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in proceedings launched by South Africa against Israel over the Gaza war on January 11 and 12, it said on January 3. South Africa had asked the ICJ on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has closed an international tribunal that was created to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. chief’s spokesperson said Sunday. Over the years, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon held in absentia proceedings...
Two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists in south Lebanon nearly two months ago were apparently deliberate and a direct attack on civilians, two international human rights groups said Thursday. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said that the...
Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council on March 7, 2023, condemned the pervasive obstruction and interference with Lebanon’s domestic investigation into the August 4, 2020 explosion at Beirut’s port, Human Rights Watch and Legal Agenda said today. Lebanese authorities should urgently act to carry out badly needed judicial reforms and remove other obstacles undermining the domestic investigation into the explosion.
Lebanon's top prosecutor has charged the judge leading the inquiry into the 2020 Beirut port blast and ordered the release of suspects in custody. On Monday, Judge Tarek Bitar unexpectedly restarted the probe after a 13-month suspension and filed unspecified charges against eight officials...
The judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion has unexpectedly resumed his inquiry and charged top security officials, three judicial officials said on Monday, more than a year after his probe was frozen by political resistance. Judge Tarek Bitar's efforts to interrogate top officials over...
On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon. After bringing them back to shore, to the port of Tripoli, where they recovered overnight, the Lebanese army loaded...
A Lebanese judge indicted five state security members on charges of torture in the case of a Syrian refugee who died in custody. On September 2, the military prosecutor arrested a state security officer and four other members on torture charges before referring them to Najat Abu Chakra, a military...
Cholera has swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as the countries have struggled with devastated infrastructure, turmoil and housing large populations of people displaced by conflict. The hundreds of thousands of cases, worsened by conflict, poverty and climate change, have become a major setback...
Lebanon will start sending Syrian refugees back home at the end of next week, President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday, in a process a security official described as voluntary, despite rights groups' fears for the refugees’ safety. Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world...