Lebanon Other
Tarek Bitar
طارق البيطارLebanese investigating judge appointed to lead the inquiry into the August 2020 Beirut port blast that killed over 200 people. He has charged senior security officials, ministers, and the central-bank governor; his progress has been repeatedly suspended by legal challenges from the accused and threatened by the political establishment. The blast investigation has become the single most concrete test of post-2019 Lebanese accountability.
- Country
- Lebanon
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Other
Position
1 source document on file for Tarek Bitar (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview English Tarek Bitar (lead investigating judge, Beirut port-blast probe) — statements to media/AP, Jan 2023 (per The961): refusing to step down despite the top prosecutor charging him and releasing suspects — "I will continue with the case and I will not leave it unless they remove me completely," undeterred "even if it is going to cost me my life." Judicial independence vs the political class.
I will continue with the case and I will not leave it unless they remove me completely. …even if it is going to cost me my life.
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Tarek Bitar [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Tarek Bitar." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-tarek-bitar-lb,
title = {{Tarek Bitar}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.