The judiciary has no right to task the Internal Security Forces (ISF)-Information Branch with investigations because the department is not located within the “controlling legal framework of the ISF,” Change and Reform bloc MP Ziad Aswad told the Akhbar al-Youm news agency on Thursday.
During a Tuesday press conference following the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun called on Lebanese citizens to not abide by requests of the ISF-Information Branch or Attorney General Said Mirza, saying, “the judiciary is burning.”
In another fiery speech on September 5, Aoun criticized the government over media leaks allegedly stemming from the Information Branch’s investigation of Brigadier General Fayez Karam, an FPM official arrested August 5 on charges of spying for Israel.
The March 14 alliance General Secretariat, in turn, issued a statement that “Lebanon is confronting an attempt to form a coup, which was [proved] by [the acts of] Hezbollah, Aoun and former head of Lebanon’s General Security Jamil as-Sayyed.”
Sayyed was placed in temporary detention in Lebanon in 2005 for his alleged involvement in the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri and released in 2009 due to lack of evidence
“I do not think that a side with 27 MPs and 5 ministers - working within the [political] authority, opposing, and discussing – is [fomenting] a coup,” Aswad also said to the news agency, adding that the real coup is by those who create “dualism within the state.”
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