Badri Daher has been patient for two years in the general security prison in Beirut.
Sometimes his lawyer visits him.
The former director of customs reads a lot, prays a lot, does a bit of sport… And awaits the results of the investigation into the explosion at the port of Beirut.
Except that it has been at a standstill for seven months.
Arrested on August 7, 2020, three days after the explosion which killed more than 220 people and injured 6,500 others, he has since been imprisoned for “intentional homicide”.
He risks life imprisonment or even the death penalty, even if Lebanon applies a moratorium on the matter.
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Like him, they are 16 to be detained without trial as part of the judicial inquiry.
"Letting them rot in prison is arbitrary,
" explains his lawyer, Georges Khoury, who unsuccessfully filed three requests for release.
They have all been heard by the courts on multiple occasions.
What use is it now?”
"The real culprits have never been heard"
Eight others have also been released over the past two years…
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