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
- AUGUST 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
It was reported in August that a recent study on crime...
It was reported in August that a recent study on crime shows that sentences issued between 1994 and 1998 in 16 cases of murder included one acquittal, 4 one-year prison sentences, 4 sentences of less than 5 years in prison, 3 jail sentences of less than 1
- JULY 25, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On July 25, more than 300 people staged a sit-in to...
On July 25, more than 300 people staged a sit-in to protest the rape of 5-year-old Maymouna Mahmoud Alameddine in Minyeh-Dinnieh, demanding that the rapist be executed
- JULY 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Lebanon signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JULY 13, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On July 13, Tripoli's Criminal Court postponed the...
On July 13, Tripoli's Criminal Court postponed the trial of Ali Qaddour, 22, a man accused of raping and murdering an 8-year-old boy, Ahmad Mohammed Sidawi, in May and dumping his body in the sea, until the judiciary's vacation ended in October
- JUNE 3, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
In June, 3 former Christian militiamen were sentenced...
In June, 3 former Christian militiamen were sentenced to death in absentia, and their notorious leader Samir Geagea to life imprisonment, for killing Sunni Muslim prime minister Rashid Karami in 1987
- MAY 30, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On May 30, the Permanent Military Court, headed by Brig
On May 30, the Permanent Military Court, headed by Brig
- APRIL 16, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate...
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Said Mirza demanded the death sentence for a woman, Fawz Hajj Hussein Ellao, her sons Abbas and Ellao, and two other men, Imad Matar and Youssef Mohammed, for allegedly murdering a 5-year-old girl, Zeinab
- APRIL 2, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian...
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian woman confessed to killing her newborn baby by throwing him from a 7th-floor apartment in Sidon at the end of March
- MARCH 25, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25,...
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25, Walid Mohammed Jamal Youzbashi, 25, Azzam Ali Raai, 29, and Khaled Mohammed Jamaleddine, 47, were charged with the premeditated murder of Omar and Doha Mrad in 1997
- MARCH 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended...
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended that a woman Hiba Abdel-Razzaq Maasarani, 41, be sentenced to death for shooting her husband, businessman Adel Fouad Traboulsi, 46, in his sleep in 1997
- MARCH 3, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 3, the chief investigating magistrate in the...
On March 3, the chief investigating magistrate in the North, Salah Moukheiber, asked that the death penalty be given to Dib Eid Semaan, 58, for killing Bernadette Bazeouni, in Hadsheet, Bsharri in 1996, because of a long-standing feud between the two fami
- MARCH 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
In March, Jean Yusuf Chahin, who arrrived in Australia...
In March, Jean Yusuf Chahin, who arrrived in Australia two years ago on a holiday visa and has applied for residency in Australia as a refugee, was sentenced to death for 9 alleged assassinations and the bombing of a church in Lebanon