Lebanon’s Prosecutor General Ghassan Oweidat charged the Beirut port explosion judge and served him with a travel ban on Wednesday.
Oweidat summoned Judge Tarek Bitar for questioning and accused him of "acting without a mandate." This follows Bitar unprecedented charges on Monday implicating the country’s elite in the blast. Those names include Oweidat. Bitar's announcement has triggered a power struggle within the Lebanese judiciary and a wave of protests against the political class inside Lebanon.