In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who had been held in pre-trial detention since the explosion. Bitar and legal ...
About 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, Guba was in the break room — about 90 minutes into his 10-hour shift as a warehouse associate — when he heard people yelling near the facility’s front entrance.