Rights & justice

At a press conference, Khaouli advocates legislation excluding civilians from military courts, arguing that fair trial safeguards and international human rights standards require reform.

Khaouli opposed ending support for livestock inputs, emphasizing food security, seeds, fertilizers and medicines, alongside stronger agricultural production and exports to earn foreign currency.

Khaouli rejected portraying protesters as infiltrators, interpreting their anger through unemployment, lost hope, worsening living conditions and failure to form an independent government.

He sought the release of banking association protesters, linking their action to opposition to banking policies.

IMLebanon covers Khaouli’s public housing institution visit and his calls to expand loans and housing support for low and middle income households.

Khaouli visits the Public Corporation for Housing and discusses its plans with Rony Lahoud, advocating housing loans and solutions for low income residents.

Coverage of Khaouli’s meeting with Justice Minister Rifi about Michel Samaha’s release, within debate on military courts, judicial safeguards and proposed reforms.

Al-Joumhouria examined the ten-year cylinder replacement program, documenting Khaouli’s participation in the meeting of petroleum companies and gas unions to oversee its implementation.

The investigation examined gas cylinder replacement and consumer objections, reporting Khaouli’s position alongside questions over tracking, financing, commercial benefits and public safety standards.

In Al Joumhouria, Khaouli describes a severe illness and recovery, with the feature discussing treatment, determination and explanations provided by his treating doctor.

Khaouli criticized financing a 300-lira increase in station commissions through diesel prices, arguing that households needed winter heating support rather than additional consumer costs.

After meeting Sleiman Haroun, Khaouli opposed delays to raising the social security contribution ceiling, warning of larger health insurance deficits and threats to the fund’s independence.

At a press conference, Khaouli criticized the public transport subsidy law, arguing that private transport cartels benefited, in an economic roundup covering policy, expenditure and services.

Khaouli urges Bahrain to reconsider deportations of Lebanese residents without legal justification, warning of consequences for Lebanese workers across the Gulf.

Khaouli called for renewed enforcement of maximum commercial profit margins, urging Hariri’s government to turn meetings into concrete price monitoring and measures preventing further increases.

Khaouli criticized private hospitals’ warning strike as endangering insured patients and requested accountability, amid reporting on social security deficits and overdue payments to hospitals.

Amid union objections to the funding and governance of proposed old age insurance, Khaouli emphasized its importance despite flaws, illustrating differences within the labor movement.

A Lebanese Labour Party delegation led by Khaouli discusses Lebanese detainees and missing persons in Syria with Patriarch Sfeir ahead of a presidential visit.

Khaouli objects to withdrawal of benefits for insured mothers’ children and calls for restored entitlements and opposition to discrimination against working women.

Assafir lists Khaouli’s solidarity statement with the Palestinian uprising as secretary general of the National Front for Union Action among Lebanese reactions.

MTV records Khaouli’s position at a meeting with union opposition at Beit al-Amel. He called for Lebanon to meet its tribunal-funding commitments, warned of economic and social consequences and envisaged union action. The report’s publication date is unverified.

Khaouli opposed handing over an Israeli without a counterpart for Lebanese prisoners, according to his account, demanding transparent negotiations and institutional oversight; this is his legal and political position.

An archived report on jAD association visits the Regie. The original publication by Régie Libanaise provides the full context.

An interview on Khaouli’s position regarding amnesty, prison overcrowding and possible responses.