Lebanon: Authorities should lift immunity and allow interrogation of MPs into the Beirut port explosion

By Amnesty International

Responding to the news that two members of parliament, Ghazi Zeaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil, who had both refused to cooperate with the investigation into the Beirut blast, have been elected to the parliamentary committee for administration and justice, Diana Semaan, Amnesty International’s Acting Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The […] The post Lebanon: Authorities should lift immunity and allow interrogation of MPs into the Beirut port explosion appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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