Judicial shift reopens investigations into Beirut port explosion

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The judge has struck down a ruling issued in January 2023 by former prosecutor general Ghasán Ueidat, which prohibited judicial institutions from collaborating with Bitar, collected Lebanese television station LBCI.

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Youssef Diab wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat: Public Prosecutor Judge Jamal Al-Hajjar has annulled the decision of his predecessor, Judge Ghassan Oueidat, which he took more than two years ago, to stop any cooperation with the judicial investigator into the Beirut port explosion crime, Judge Tarek Bitar. The decision came against the backdrop of Bitar’s lawsuit against Oueidat and a number of judges in the Beirut port explosion file, and Bitar’s insist…