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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

May 25, 2009 - Naharnet - Bellemare Emphasizes Secrecy, Israel Urges Arrest of Nasrallah after Der Spiegel Report

Head of the investigative commission Canadian prosecutor Daniel Bellemare would not comment on a report by the German weekly Der Spiegel which said Hizbullah was behind the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri. A statement issued by Bellemare's office in Lebanon said the prosecutor "had been and will continue to attach great importance to the support of the integrity of the investigation, particularly secrecy" of the probe. It reiterated that the office's work was "evidence-driven, objective, neutral and impartial and leaves no room for a prejudged outcome."In Israel, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for an international arrest warrant against Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah after Der Spiegel's report linked his group to Hariri's murder."The report in Der Spiegel on Nasrallah's direct involvement in the assassination of Hariri should raise concern in the entire international community," Lieberman told reporters in Jerusalem. "He should have an international arrest warrant issued against him, and if not, he should be arrested by force," he said. Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh rejected the report as "totally false." U.N. officials have not questioned any Hizbullah members as part of their investigation, Salloukh said from Damascus, where he was participating in a foreign ministers meeting. Hizbullah MP Nawar Saheli also dismissed the report as "a big lie." "We are waiting for the international tribunal to react and to see where the German magazine got its information from," Saheli said. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the report "was nothing but a new attempt to sow sedition among the Lebanese." "This is a media fabrication that only lacked the stamp: 'Made in Israel'," Berri said. Meanwhile, Druze leader Walid Jumblat urged Lebanese "not to fall into the trap of the vast discord," and considered that "Israeli fingerprints" were behind the German weekly report.

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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