This blog of the Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) aims at granting the public opinion access to all information related to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon : daily press review in english, french and arabic ; UN documents, etc...

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Centre Libanais des droits humains (CLDH) a pour objectif de rendre accessible à l'opinion publique toute l'information relative au Tribunal Spécial pour le Liban : revue de presse quotidienne en anglais, francais et arabe ; documents onusiens ; rapports, etc...
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PRESS REVIEW

Daily Star - Hariri probe 'arrests PSP man linked to Hawi assassination', May 08, 2008

The UN probe committee investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has detained a man in Beirut's Wata al-Mosseitbeh neighborhood on suspicion of involvement in the killing of former Lebanese Communist Party cheif George Hawi, a report published by As-Safir newspaper said Tuesday. As-Safir, citing witnesses who live in the neighborhood, said UN investigators in a large convoy visited the area on April 14 and raided the house of a man identified as "N.G." who lives opposite Hawi's residence on Jabal al-Arab Street. The Communist Party's former secretary general was killed in a car bombing in June 2005. The report said the suspect, a member of the Progressive Socialist Party headed by MP Walid Jumblatt, had left shortly after Hawi's murder to Dubai where he has been working there for nearly two years. He returned to Beirut about six months ago to work at a restaurant. I used to see this individual every day on the sidewalk near my parent's house; he used to spend the night smoking sheesha near my father's car until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.," Hawi's son, Raffi Madayan, told Al-Manar television on Tuesday. Madayan also accused the Lebanese security services of negligence: "I'm very concerned that there might be attempts to cover for the real killer." In its Tuesday report, As-Safir said investigations on members of the so-called Rafeh network - suspected of being an Israeli spying cell operating in Lebanon - have led to new information concerning Hawi's murder. Hawi was assassinated when a bomb planted in his car was detonated by remote control as he traveled through Wata al-Moseitbeh. The perpetrator has yet to be identified, but the ruling coalition in Lebanon has usually blamed Syria for this and other explosions in the capital, after the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon. Syria has repeatedly denied the charges

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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