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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

April 21, 2009 - Naharnet - Siddiq Arrested or Not Arrested

There has been conflicting reports as to whether or not Mohammed Zuheir Siddiq, key witness in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, had been arrested or not. Official sources in the United Arab Emirates refused to confirm or deny Siddiq's reported arrest.Dubai police chief Gen. Dahi Khalfan also denied in remarks published Tuesday by pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat that Siddiq has been arrested in Dubai."He was not arrested on Dubai territory," Khalfan said, claiming no knowledge that Siddiq had been arrested in another Emirate.
An Arab diplomat told the Associated Press news agency on Sunday that Siddiq, one of the suspects in Hariri's murder, has been arrested in Dubai.
Siddiq, purported Syrian intelligence officer, was named a suspect by a U.N. commission investigating the 2005 assassination.
Hariri was killed in a massive bombing that many Lebanese believe was carried out by Syria, Lebanon's long dominant neighbor. Syria denies involvement.
Initially Siddiq was a witness who gave evidence to U.N. investigators. His information, however, was later discredited, and at the U.N. commission's recommendation, he was arrested in France in October 2005 as a suspect in the murder. He disappeared from house arrest in France in March 2008, according to French authorities. The UAE's Foreign Ministry could not confirm he was living in the country and did not know if he was arrested. The Arab diplomat said Siddiq was arrested Friday in Dubai and that Syria has requested his extradition. Syrian media reports have said Siddiq is wanted there for allegedly giving false testimony implicating Syria in the assassination. Only four other suspects in the killing are in custody. They are pro-Syria generals who led Lebanon's police, intelligence service and an elite army unit at the time of the assassination. They have not been formally charged. An international tribunal in the Netherlands took up the case in February.

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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