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Lebanese government sacrifices the judiciary to save bankers
Lebanon's government has endangered the independence of the country's judiciary, legal monitors have said after Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati endorsed a controversial legal article to suspend proceedings against certain banks. Mikati wrote a letter on 22 February instructing security forces not to implement the decisions of Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun, who had ordered the lifting of banking secrecy on certain banks. Mikati cited article 751 of Lebanon's civil law, which suspends legal proceedings if a court case is filed against the presiding judge. "This is totally contrary to the principle of law, even to the principle of separation of powers.

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