Aoun urges judiciary to issue rulings in pending cases

President Michel Aoun on Monday stressed the need for the judiciary to issue rulings in the “pending cases, especially those related to financial lawsuits and the Beirut port blast crime.”

“The families of the victims and the detainees are still awaiting the judiciary’s rulings,” Aoun said in a meeting in Baabda with caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury, Higher Judicial Council chief Judge Suheil Abboud, State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat and the judges Afif al-Hakim, Habib Mezher, Elias Richa, Dany Chebli and Mereille al-Haddad.

“It is unacceptable to paralyze judicial work under any excuse and the perpetrators must be punished, in any position they may be,” the President added.

The National News Agency meanwhile said that the meeting tackled “the current judicial situations and the work of courts and public prosecutors.”