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Akiki 'Recused' from Tayyouneh Case, Geagea's File 'Referred to Sawwan'
[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Fadi Akiki, referred Thursday the Tayyouneh file to the first military investigative judge Fadi Sawwan, media reports said.
Akiki asked Sawwan to hear Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
as a witness.
Geagea failed to show up Wednesday before Akiki over his alleged role in the Tayyouneh festivities. He had warned last week he would ignore the summons if his bitter rival, Hizbullah
...Party of God , a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
 ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
, was not called in for questioning too.
The lawyers of the Tayyouneh detainees had submitted a request to recuse Akiki but the latter refused to register the request.
The lawyers then requested the judge’s recusal before the Court of Appeals.
On Thursday, the Civil Court of Appeals in Beirut accepted the recusal request to remove Akiki from the case, according to LBCI television.
Seven people were killed in street fighting two weeks ago, following a rally organized by Hizbullah and its ally Amal Movement against the judge Tarek Bitar investigating last year's deadly blast at Beirut port.
Hizbullah and Amal accused the LF of firing the first shots in the October 14 violence. Geagea denied any involvement and claimed that his summons had no legal grounding.
Posted by: Fred 2021-10-29 |
