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Mohamad Ayyad, who is believed to be linked to the paramilitary Hezbollah movement, was charged with the killing of an Irish UNIFIL soldier in southern Lebanon last year.
Third in a three-part series examining various efforts to uncover the truth behind the Beirut port explosion.
First in a two-part series examining various efforts to uncover the truth behind the Beirut port explosion.
BEIRUT — Lebanon marked three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked Beirut with hundreds of protesters marching alongside victims' families Friday to demand long-awaited justice. Nobody has been held to account for the tragedy as political and legal pressures impede the investigation.On August 4, 2020, the massive blast at Beirut port destroyed
As heartbreaking recollections of the port blast make their way back into the minds of Lebanese, the question of justice for the victims of the crime has forcefully returned to the fore. And justice inevitably comes with demands for the truth: Why did what happened happen? Who did it? Who made the order? However, justice returns as an impossible, unattainable object. Judge Tarek Bitar having his hands tied, after the dismissal of Judge Fadi Sawan, merely encapsulated this state of affairs, besides serving as an early omen for what was to come.