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First – The Beirut Bar Association supports the content of the statement issued by Bar Association President Melhem Khalaf yesterday, 11/12/2020, which is presented in their realistic, legal and national positions, and any attacks his person is a goal for the Bar Association with all its members.
Second, the Beirut Bar Association keeps abreast of the court proceedings handed down by the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, and commends the bold steps it took regarding the decision to question some officials in order to get to the truth, abandoning all sectarian, political and security reserves, provided they are pursued with the same impulse. In it, the good of integral justice, justice is for all people, and for all people equally, especially justice for thousands of citizens in the greatest crime that shook the nation, and the law, jurisprudence and Due diligence has been verified by the judicial investigator by listening to whoever he wants without any impediment to constitutional, legal or political immunity.
Third – The Beirut Bar Association regrets the attacks to which the judicial investigator has been subjected since yesterday. What he has done is part of his duties as judge in charge of justice for thousands of people, and cannot be considered in any way a violation of the Constitution, but rather a constructive pillar on which to build a promising start. Towards the independence of the Judiciary, the cornerstone of the construction of the nation, and what the Union Council asks for the presence of the judicial investigator is more calls to include all those who seem involved in politics, security and other actors.
Fourth: The Beirut Bar Association invites colleagues, lawyers and the general public to erect an impenetrable barrier against those who consider themselves above prosecution, law and justice, and the Bar Association calls on lawyers and citizens who join hands, solidarity and community solidarity to support the truth against falsehood, and the sun shines again.
