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Activists rally at Justice Palace to decry corruption

Associated Timeline/Case: 
Waste Management Conflict (Starting January 25, 2014)
Date of incident: 
January 13, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

Activists from the We Want Accountability group rallied outside Beirut’s Justice Palace Tuesday to protest against corrupt institutions and officials.
“Our main goal today was to meet with the head of the Higher Judicial Council Jean Fahed,” group organizer Nehmat Badreddine told The Daily Star. “We were told that he was not present, with no further explanation ... We don’t regard this as a positive sign.”
Instead, they met with Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim. The activists were following up on a previous sit-in they held last week. After rushing into the Central Inspection Department activists met with its head. He informed them that the files pertaining to the companies contracted by the government to export Lebanon’s waste were transferred to the Higher Judicial Council.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Jan-13/331621-activis...

Primary category: 
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.