The forensic investigation will be reactivated, and the dismissing of Oueidat and the Information Division guarantees its transparency

The forensic investigation will be reactivated on Thursday, and the dismissing of Judge Oueidat and the Information Division guarantees its transparency

On Thursday the 5^th of August, UFL Lawyers will submit a memorandum to the judicial investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar, as it was not possible to register it on August 3, 2021, and it is about the measures taken in the course of the investigation, especially since the interrogation sessions with Hani Shehadeh, former head of the Supreme Defense Council, and Major Sami Hussein, responsible in Beirut port, and Moussa Hazimeh, the former regional director of customs, will be launched at the same time on August 5, 2021 after the Beirut Bar Association gave permission to attend the investigation, and UFL lawyers will attend as a prosecutor in the port explosion case.

The memorandum included the expression of confidence in the work of Judge Bitar with a re-demand to seek the disqualification of the judicial public prosecutor, Judge Ghassan Oueidat, as well as reserving on the role of the Information Division in the investigations, especially in terms of re-enactment of the crime, with regard to the cause of the explosion, which became the subject of a major political debate with the interest of some to modulate it. In addition to its transgression of human rights, which was documented by UFL in the report issued upon the arrest of lawyer Rami Ollaik in May 2021, with reference to the alliance’s openness to all options that preserve the investigation and its transparency, independence with full confidence in it.

With the investigation brought back to the track of follow-up, it is important to the UFL Alliance to emphasize on the need to reveal the truth and criminals, regardless of their importance, and this requires lifting immunities and giving the judiciary the necessary powers to follow up on its duties, as citizens will never accept that perpetrators of the crime of the age remain without accountability.