111 Lebanese judges announced, in an official statement, on Friday, the forced cessation of work, “because of the state’s inability to cover hospitalization, medical care, and education for them and their families.”
They attributed their strike to “the lack of working conditions that are appropriate to human dignity, and because of the state of the judiciary at all levels.”
The statement stressed that “there is no turning back from this decision, before the necessities for living and working in dignity are available.”
It is noteworthy that the number of judges working in Lebanon is approximately 600.
After they sounded the alarm many times, warning that working conditions had touched the line of impossibility, without receiving a listening ear from the authority, a large number of Lebanese judges of various ranks and grades announced an open strike.
According to a previous report by Al-Hurra website, this group of state employees suffers, like the rest of the citizens, from the crises that afflict their country, on top of which is the rise in the exchange rate of the dollar and the collapse of the value of their salaries.
According to a statement issued by the judges in August of last year, “the salary of the original judge, who has spent nearly forty years in service, does not exceed eight million Lebanese pounds (about $240), contrary to rumors of fabricated news affecting the judiciary at its core.”
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2023-09-01 10:11:46
