Lebanese Judge Ghada Aoun Summoned for Questioning

Judge Ghada Aoun. NNA file photo
Judge Ghada Aoun. NNA file photo
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Lebanese Judge Ghada Aoun Summoned for Questioning

Judge Ghada Aoun. NNA file photo
Judge Ghada Aoun. NNA file photo

Public Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oweidat set next Monday a date to question Judge Ghada Aoun for insulting the Supreme Judicial Council, in addition to other cases, a judicial source told Asharq Al-Awsat.

Her summoning by Owaidat shocked the judiciary because the judge is backed by President Michel Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement that is led by the president’s son-in-law Gebran Bassil.

Judge Aoun will also be questioned on the cases filed by deputy Hadi Hobeich against her for defamation.

Oweidat has commissioned Judge Ghassan al-Khoury to interrogate her and to inform him of the results in order to take the appropriate legal action.

Judge Aoun has posted on her WhatsApp harsh remarks on the Supreme Judicial Council, accusing it of trying to keep mouths shut after she gave her opinion about appointments in the judiciary.

The source said Judge Aoun “was called in for investigation before President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Imad Kabalan, last Thursday, but she rejected.”

He said that Khoury then contacted Judge Aoun, and informed her that it is necessary that she heads to his office at the Justice Palace in Beirut before noon next Monday.

Sources close to Aoun considered her summoning a political campaign against her.

Hobeich welcomed Friday the summoning of the judge.

“I have never threatened Judge Aoun, but only raised my voice against the violations she committed against me and many other lawyers,” Hobeich told Asharq Al-Awsat.



Lebanon Urges US Military to Put Pressure on Israel to Withdraw

This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
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Lebanon Urges US Military to Put Pressure on Israel to Withdraw

This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who met with a US military delegation Wednesday, urged it to pressure Israel to withdraw from areas it still controls in the country and to release Lebanese prisoners.

The delegation was headed by US Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, the Co-Chairman of the Cessation of Hostilities Implementation Mechanism.

Aoun told the American delegation that the Lebanese army is carrying out its work along the border with Israel, where troops have been confiscating weapons and preventing armed presence.

A statement released by Aoun’s office said that Jeffers, who had held the post since before the Israel-Hezbollah war ended in late November, will be replaced by Maj. Gen. Michael J. Leeney. It added that Leeney also attended Wednesday’s meeting.