Collective Action

Lawyers protest countrywide justice palace power cuts

More than a dozen lawyers demonstrated in front of Beirut’s Justice Palace Friday to protest frequent power cuts at justice palaces across the country, seemingly due to lack of maintenance, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The lawyers held up signs urging caretaker Justice Minister Salim Jreissati to take action on the chronic electricity shortage at the centers of Lebanese legal practice. The lawyers lit candles during the protest, as many have reportedly been doing inside their offices during power cuts.

Date: 
July 13, 2018
Actors/ Mobilising structures: 
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Mode of Action: 
Demonstration
Objective: 
Demands for rights/services
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA: 
Policy Grievances
Spatial characteristics: 
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency: 
One off

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Village Name: 
Aadlyeh
Local Name: 
Achrafieh
Caza: