Diab Says Won't Appear before Bitar Today
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab will not appear before the lead investigator in Beirut’s port blast case Judge Tarek Bitar, as a defendant today, Thursday, according to a memo issued by the Premiership's General-Secretariat.
The memo was sent to Bitar informing him of his “lack of jurisdiction to interrogate the resigned prime minister.”
The Premiership's General-Secretariat added that the file is still “in the hands of the parliament, which has not yet resolved the issue of the charges against the deputies and Diab, the lifting of immunities and the referral of the file to the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers.”
Source: Naharnet
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