Lebanon
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- May 23, 1926, amended several times, last in 1990
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- there are norms of civil law and Ottoman, canon, and Napoleonic law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Majlis Alnuwab)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- four Courts of Cassation; Constitutional Council (decides on the constitutionality of laws); Supreme Council (judges accusations against the President and Prime Minister)
RELIGIONS
59.7% Muslim; 39% Christian; 1.3% Other
From the country
- JANUARY 15, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on Lebanese President...
Amnesty International called on Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to immediately halt the imminent execution of three men, due to be put to death on January 17
- JANUARY 7, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists, legal experts and religious...
Human rights activists, legal experts and religious figures in Lebanon described the authorities' implementation of capital punishment as inhumane
- JANUARY 3, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring...
Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring crime, but is also inhumane and unjustifiable, Walid Slaibi, head of the Human Rights Movement in Lebanon, said
- DECEMBER 16, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Lebanon's President, Emile...
Amnesty International urged Lebanon's President, Emile Lahoud, to use his prerogative to immediately commute the death sentences passed on 27 people
- DECEMBER 10, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the...
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the death penalty for 31 convicts, who risk being hanged if President Emile Lahoud does not excuse them
- OCTOBER 28, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment...
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment and should not abolished, said one of Lebanon's leading magistrates, Ghassan Rabah
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is indicative of the government's...
The death penalty is indicative of the government's failure to face social problems, said Father Louis Khawand, president of the Religious Education Center in the Maronite monastery of Mashmoushe, Jezzine, in an interview with Beirut's The Daily Star
- MAY 2, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Judicial Council in Lebanon sentenced to death...
The Judicial Council in Lebanon sentenced to death Ahmad Ali Mansour after he was convicted of deliberately shooting eight people dead and injuring four others, at a shoot-out in the private teachers' fund at UNESCO, Beirut, on July 31, 2002
- JANUARY 29, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence...
A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence against a Lebanese man convicted of shooting and killing three soldiers, judicial officials
- JANUARY 1, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On july 26, 2001 the Lebanese Parliament voted unanimously...
On july 26, 2001 the Lebanese Parliament voted unanimously to repeal a law that made the death penalty mandatory for all premeditated murders
- DECEMBER 9, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested...
Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested death sentences for two men convicted of murdering a physician
- OCTOBER 2, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese former Finance Minister Georges Corm, said...
Lebanese former Finance Minister Georges Corm, said that the death sentence by stoning passed on Amina Lawal by a Nigerian Sharia Court did not serve the cause of Islam