Betarabia file before the judiciary .. The Judges Club warns of media pressure

A statement was issued by the “Lebanese Judges Club” saying: “A media outlet has been consistent for a while ago to take the Betarabia file while it is still under consideration before the competent judiciary, and it was subjected to the judicial authority that supervised the prosecution in its person and its work. This approach followed is not only a personal exposure to the intended judge, but it constitutes a proactive moral pressure on any judge who can be considered in the future, and creates, creates, creates, creates, creates, creates, creates, creates, creates Consequently, an environment is not valid for investigations to reach its correct conclusions.
The statement concluded: “Accordingly, based on the necessity of parallel between preserving the independence of the judiciary and ensuring the secret and integrity of the investigations and the surrender of freedom of opinion, expression and the media, the Lebanese Judges Club confirms again that it is necessary to deal with all the files – especially those that concern public opinion – from the purely scientific and professional angle without being exposed to the judge’s person in a way that may affect his work, this is on the one hand. On the other hand, the Lebanese judge club calls Exposure to any judge in any hurtful phrases and waiting for the result of investigations and decisions that can be issued in any file, so that the concerned party is due to the legal methods of challenging them, while stressing that the prosecutions and trials cannot take place on social media or on television screens or in the newspapers.