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PRESS REVIEW

March 18, 2010 - Daily Star - Sayyed calls lawsuit against Syrian officers 'shameful'

BEIRUT: Former General Security Chief Jamil al-Sayyed judged the lawsuit filed by a Lebanese man against Syrian officers as a shameful attempt to trade with the one he filed against Lebanese officials, according to Sayyed’s media office Wednesday. Former member of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) Elias Tanios filed an unprecedented lawsuit last week against four Syrian jailers and a Syrian man who allegedly denounced him, accusing them of kidnapping, torturing and jailing him in Syria in 1992. Nonetheless, word circulated that these claims were only made in order to balance out the complaint Sayyed filed at a Syrian court last December in which he accused high ranking Lebanese officials of depriving him of his freedom and hiring false witnessed in the assassination case of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Sayyed accused Tanios of being an Israeli agent and said his attempt to create a balance was shameful. He also lashed out at the Lebanese Forces (LF) party whose chief of legal office Suleiman Labbous is Tanios ’ Lawyer. “It is a sign of moral and political bankruptcy that the LF legal office could only find a former Israeli agent to take legal action against Syrian officers in the aim of trading with the case of Sayyed,” the issued statement said. It then explained that Tanios was found guilty both in Lebanon and Syria for collaborating with Israel in 1991 and he was dismissed from the ISF for this cause. “It is even more dangerous that the ISF allowed Tanios to return to the service for one year after having paid his penal sentences,” it added. Sayyed also condemned in the statement the absence of any reaction to this “exchange” from any of the Lebanese officials concerned in the lawsuit he filed in Syria.

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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