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PRESS REVIEW

Nasrallah backs release of former security chiefs after meeting lawyers

Daily Star - Nasrallah backs release of former security chiefs after meeting lawyers, November 01, 2007

Hizbullah secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for the release of the four officers suspected of involvement in the slaying of former Premier Rafik Hariri in February 2005, saying the matter of their release was now a legal and moral issue, not a political one. He made his comments after meeting the lawyers representing the four officers Wednesday. "The continued detention of the four officers without legal proof has turned them into political prisoners against whom a policy of revenge is being practiced, far removed from the concept of justice and judicial independence," Nasrallah said. He called for their "prompt release" as the judiciary had not provided any evidence for their continued detention, adding that this human tragedy needs to end for the sake of the officers' families. He called on the judiciary and concerned officials to listen to their conscience as they would be held responsible before God and the people. Nasrallah said such practices "not only harm the integrity and objectivity of the judiciary but also shake people's confidence in their judicial authority." Nasrallah met with lawyers Issam Karam, Naji Boustani, Akram Azoury and Youssef Fenianos representing the four former security chiefs who have been detained for over two years. The lawyers discussed with Nasrallah the steps taken in the Lebanese judiciary so far and by the UN international investigation commission, and that the result had come out in favor of the officers, which obliged authorities to order their immediate release. The lawyers told Nasrallah that only the political decision to set the officers free remained.

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Background - خلفية

On 13 December 2005 the Government of the Lebanese Republic requested the UN to establish a tribunal of an international character to try all those who are alleged responsible for the attack of 14 february 2005 that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. The United Nations and the Lebanese Republic consequently negotiated an agreement on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Liens - Links - مواقع ذات صلة

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, David Schenker , March 30, 2010 . Beirut Spring: The Hariri Tribunal Goes Hunting for Hizballah


Frederic Megret, McGill University, 2008. A special tribunal for Lebanon: the UN Security Council and the emancipation of International Criminal Justice


International Center for Transitional Justice Handbook on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, April 10, 2008


United Nations
Conférence de presse de Nicolas Michel, 19 Sept 2007
Conférence de presse de Nicolas Michel, 27 Mars 2008


Département d'Etat américain
* 2009 Human Rights report
* 2008 Human Rights report
* 2007 Human Rights report
* 2006 Human Rights report
* 2005 Human Rights report



ICG - International Crisis Group
The Hariri Tribunal: Separate the Political and the Judicial, 19 July, 2007. [Fr]


HCSS - Hague Centre for strategic studies
Hariri, Homicide and the Hague


Human Rights Watch
* Hariri Tribunal can restore faith in law, 11 may 2006
* Letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, april 27, 2006


Amnesty International
* STL insufficient without wider action to combat impunity
* Liban : le Tribunal de tous les dangers, mai 2007
* Jeu de mecano


Courrier de l'ACAT - Wadih Al Asmar
Le Tribunal spécial pour le Liban : entre espoir et inquiétude


Georges Corm
La justice penale internationale pour le Liban : bienfait ou malediction?


Nadim Shedadi and Elizabeth Wilmshurt, Chatham House
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon : the UN on Trial?, July 2007


Issam Michael Saliba, Law Library of Congress
International Tribunals, National Crimes and the Hariri Assassination : a novel development in International Criminal Law, June 2007


Mona Yacoubian, Council on Foreign Relations
Linkages between Special UN Tribunal, Lebanon, and Syria, June 1, 2007