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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 26, 2010 - Daily Star - STL releases first annual report on trial progress

BEIRUT: President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Antonio Cassese issued Friday the first annual report of the tribunal’s work after being referred by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Security Council. The report, which was obtained by pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, will be considered as one of the UN’s official documents. It covers the period between March 1, 2009, and February 28, 2010, and labeled the first year of STL’s work as a period of “vital importance.” Also, the report covered the “tribunal’s achievements” and the challenges it faced due to extreme complication of the mission of dealing with terrorism on the international judicial level and because of the newness of this task. According to the report, STL’s 2010 budget increased to $55.4 million compared to $51.4 million in 2009. Cassese stressed that “despite the challenges that the tribunal will face, it intends to achieve justice free from any political or ideological chains, and based on complete mutual respect for the rights of the prosecuted as well as the victims.” “Accordingly, continuous efforts should be pursued to secure funding and judicial help from countries and international organizations,” he added. “In addition to all difficulties that international forensic tribunals usually suffer from, STL which is an international forensic tribunal dealing with terrorism cases, faces other problems pertaining to the investigation and collecting evidence,” said Cassese. “That’s why the tribunal should persist in overcoming those complications and challenges that constitute an undividable part of investigations in terrorist crimes and chasing the perpetrators,” he noted. In addition, the tribunal should tackle another major challenge for it is the first international judicial committee that decides on the responsibility of terrorism as a crime in itself, Cassese added.
According to the STL official, “the tribunal aims at improving the culture of accountability among the Lebanese.” Cassese emphasized that the STL aimed at reconciling Lebanese, a step enhanced by the quick revealing of truth. The STL was created by the UN Security Council in May 2007 to try suspects involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and other related crimes. – The Daily Star

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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