The head of the Arab Tawhid Party, Wiam Wahhab, entered the controversy surrounding the extradition of wanted persons between Lebanon and Syria, raising the issue of the conflict between bilateral obligations and international conventions, and warning against the extradition of a person who may be threatened with the death penalty.
Wahhab wrote, in a post on the “X” platform, that “the cooperation document between Lebanon and Syria obligates the two countries to extradite wanted persons, and the conventions of the Geneva Convention prohibit the extradition of those threatened with execution, and if they conflict, the Geneva Conventions are considered superior to the agreement of the two countries.”
Wahhab went directly to the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and the Minister of Justice, Adel Nassar, calling on them to intervene, and said: “His Excellency the President and His Excellency the Minister of Justice, prevent the murder of an old, retired man.”
Wahhab’s position comes in light of the issue of extradition of wanted persons between Lebanon and Syria and the associated obligations resulting from the cooperation document between the two countries, in contrast to what Wahhab reported regarding international conventions that, according to him, prevent the extradition of people threatened with the death penalty, which places the issue of extradition in a legal framework linked to the extent of compatibility of bilateral obligations with international conventions.
