Beirut Bar Association Seeks to Muzzle Lawyers

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Lebanese lawyer Nizar Saghieh, who heads of the local rights-based organization Legal Agenda. © Legal Agenda Prominent Lebanese lawyer Nizar Saghieh, who heads the local rights-based organization Legal Agenda, faces the threat of sanction – including possible disbarment – for speaking out against the Beirut Bar Association’s decision to arbitrarily and unlawfully limit what lawyers can say in public. Saghieh will appear before the Council of the Beirut Bar Association tomorrow. The amendments to the Bar Association’s Legal Code of Ethics, approved by the council in…

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