This page is general information, not legal advice. Talk to a Lebanese lawyer you trust before you identify yourself to any authority.
Law 83 of 2018: protection of whistleblowers
Law 83/2018 protects people who report corruption through official channels. It promises confidentiality and protection from retaliation at work. The National Anti-Corruption Commission is the main channel, and a later amendment added the public prosecution as a route.
Civil society groups report that the law is applied unevenly and that its institutions remain under-resourced. See the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and the UNDP whistleblower protection project.
An anonymous leak is not a protected filing
Sending documents to Lebanon Leaks does not count as a report under Law 83/2018. The law’s protections require a formal report that identifies you to the competent body. Our protection is technical: encryption, no names, no logs in our software. It is not legal immunity.
Law 28 of 2017: the right of access to information
Law 28/2017, amended in 2021, lets anyone request information held by public bodies without explaining why. It has exceptions, such as personal data and some security matters. Some records you hold might already be public by right. A formal request is a legal route to the same document. See TIMEP’s explainer.
What we do and do not promise
- We never ask for your name and our software never stores it.
- We never hand material to any authority.
- We do not promise immunity from prosecution, and nobody else should promise it either.