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

January 12, 2010 - Naharnet - Special Tribunal for Lebanon Registrar David Tolbert Resigns

The registrar of the tribunal created to try the assassins of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri has resigned, the U.N. said Tuesday -- the second registrar to leave in less than a year. "The (U.N.) Secretary-General received the resignation of the registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on January 6, 2010," a statement from U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson said on Tuesday. David Tolbert's resignation will be effective from March 1, after which he will take up his new appointment as president of the International Center for Transitional Justice. "The Secretary-General regrets the departure of Mr. Tolbert, who has decided to return to the United States to pursue his career," said the statement. Tolbert, a former deputy prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, took over as the Lebanon tribunal's main administrator in August last year from Briton Robin Vincent who resigned two months earlier. The tribunal was created by a 2007 U.N. resolution to try those responsible for a 2005 Beirut car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 other people. Damascus, implicated by a U.N. probe, has denied involvement. The tribunal has no suspects in custody and no date has been set for the start of any trial. It officially opened in The Hague on March 1, 2009. Hariri was prime minister from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation in 2004.

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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