Geagea's Lawyers Claim Summoning is ‘Illegal,’ File Memo to Judge Akiki

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea's lawyers filed on Tuesday a memo to State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki, arguing that Geagea’s summoning is “illegal.”

Some of the detainees’ lawyers also submitted a request to recuse Akiki but the latter refused to register the request, which is considered a violation of legal norms, media reports said.

The lawyers then requested the judge’s recusal before the Court of Appeals, which will look into the request in the coming days.

Geagea was on Monday summoned to testify as a “witness” in the case of the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh deadly incidents. He was notified through an Intelligence Directorate agent who posted a notice on a wall at his headquarters in Maarab.

Geagea said he will not testify in the case if Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is not also summoned.