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PRESS REVIEW

July 29, 2010 - L'Orient le jour - Report: Hariri Criticizes Hizbullah for Addressing Him 'Through Screens'

A meeting between the prime minister and Hizbullah leader's political assistant Hussein Khalil on Tuesday started with a severe argument after Saad Hariri criticized what he called a campaign by the Shiite party against the international tribunal, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported.
The newspaper said Thursday that Hariri criticized Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's way of addressing him "through screens."

A crisis erupted in Lebanon after Nasrallah accused the court of writing a charge sheet before the interrogation of Hizbullah members. "There is a dangerous project that is targeting the resistance," Nasrallah said via video link.

According to al-Hayat, Hariri told Khalil that the issue of the court should be discussed in a calm atmosphere away from the media spotlight.

The newspaper quoted informed sources as saying Khalil stressed to Hariri that Hizbullah does not accept accusations of involvement in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's murder "that's why it cautioned against plots."

Despite the argument, political sources told al-Hayat that a meeting would most probably be held between Hariri and Nasrallah.

Al-Liwaa newspaper's sources described the Hariri-Khalil meeting as good although they said more contact is needed between the two sides.

They said Khalil told Hariri that everyone wants to know the truth behind Hariri's assassination but politicization of the court is rejected. The premier, in his turn, said that he would refuse any indictment that is not backed by evidence.

According to the sources, Hariri also told Khalil that he does not accept his father's soul to become a source of strife in Lebanon.

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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