• Bechara Al-Asmar

Head of Lebanon’s General Labor Confederation Bechara Al Asmar was arrested for 10 days after he insulted late patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir in a leaked video. A few days later Asmar resigned. Beirut investigative judge Georges Rizk issued a decision of release after paying a bail amount of 500,000 Lebanese pounds On March 3, 2020, The first investigating judge in Beirut, George Rizk, issued his presumptive decision to prevent the trial of the former head of the General Labor Confederation, Bechara Al-Asmar, for the crime of inciting sectarian strife and denigrating religious rituals.