Law Strengthening Basic Guarantees and Activating the Rights of Defense

Type

Law

Number

191

Date of the text

16/10/2020

Official Gazette

published in 2020

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

5

What it provides

This law amends certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure concerning flagrant offences and the powers of the public prosecutor and judicial police, strengthening basic guarantees and defence rights, particularly rules on travel bans at the crime scene, detention, interrogation, summons, and procedures upon d

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2020. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.