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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 12, 2010 - Naharnet - Siddiq: Forged Passport Given to Me by Sarkozy's Office

A former Syrian spy accused of misleading the U.N. probe into the murder of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri said he had entered the United Arab Emirates with a forged Czech passport that he had received from then French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
"I didn't know it (the passport) was forged. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office when he was interior minister gave me this passport," Zuhair Siddiq told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper at a European country where he is now residing after leaving the UAE.

"I was told that it (the passport) was earmarked for the protection of witnesses in Hariri's case," the one-time member of Syria's intelligence services said.

Siddiq was initially seen as a leading witness in the U.N. probe but was discredited later for giving false testimony.

In October 2009, a state security court in Abu Dhabi sentenced him to six months in jail and deportation for entering the UAE on the forged passport.

In his interview with al-Seyassah, Siddiq also accused Hizbullah cadres of involvement in Hariri's Feb. 2005 assassination, saying some of the party's officials were similar to "Chicago gangs."

During the Damascus hegemony on Lebanon, "any small or big security operation was carried out in coordination between Hizbullah and the Syrian leadership through the Syrian military intelligence," he said.

He stressed on his previous accusations against the Syrian-Lebanese security regime, reiterating that "the Syrian regime and former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud gave orders" to kill Hariri.

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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