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

Naharnet - Bellemare: Additional Suspects in the Hariri Killing, Related Crimes, December 3, 2008

The international commission probing the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri on Tuesday reported acquiring "new information that may allow it to link additional individuals to the network that carried out the assassination."
The commission, in its 11th report to the U.N. Security Council, also said it has "additional elements corroborating the connection between the Hariri attack and other cases with which links had already been found." "Preliminary indications also suggest that there may be a link between one additional case and the Hariri case," said the report by Commissioner Daniel Bellemare. The commission requested a two-month extension of its mandate, to Feb. 28, "so that it can continue its investigation without interruption," the report said.
It pledged that "during the extension period the commission would gradually transfer operations, staff and assets to the Hague with a view of completing the transition by the time the tribunal starts functioning" on March 1. The statement noted that "the launching of the tribunal does not mean that the investigation has been completed … the commission and the office of the prosecutor, once it begins to operate, must continue to gather evidence that would support an indictment before the tribunal." It said the "office of the prosecutor of the tribunal will need to continue to investigate all the cases within the commission's current mandate in order to establish which of the cases are connected to the Hariri case in the manner required by the tribunal's statute." "It will also require the full cooperation and support of the Lebanese authorities, as well as the member states, in order to conduct effective investigations and prosecutions," the statement added. It said Syria has "provided generally satisfactory cooperation."

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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