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PRESS REVIEW

August 12, 2010 - Naharnet - Ball Now In Hizbullah Court after Mirza Conveyed Bellemare's Request for Data

A request by Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare demanding Lebanese authorities to provide all the information in possession of Hizbullah has reportedly made its way to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat said Thursday it learned that Bellemare's office on Wednesday sent a written request to State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza in line with an agreement signed between the Justice Ministry and the STL Prosecutor.
It cited well-informed sources as saying that Mirza, in turn, passed on the request to Nasrallah via Wafiq Safa, Head of Hizbullah's Coordination and Liaison Committee.

The sources said Hizbullah promised to give Bellemare an answer "later."

A senior Hizbullah source, meanwhile, told Al-Liwaa newspaper that Bellemare's request for data "will not change our perspective and lack of confidence in the performance of the International Tribunal and the investigating committee."

"This request includes the video material that was shown on television during the press conference, as well any other material that would be of assistance to the Office of the Prosecutor in unveiling the truth," Bellemare's press release said.

The Office of the Prosecutor also invited Nasrallah "to use his authority to facilitate its investigation."

"Away from the spotlight, the Office of the Prosecutor is pursuing its investigation according to the highest standards of international justice, in a neutral and objective way. The Office of the Prosecutor is led by the evidence and nothing else," said the press release.

The Office of the Prosecutor said it has "the sole responsibility for the investigation and acts independently," stressing that "nobody can influence its direction."

"As such, it must pursue all possible leads," added Bellemare's request.

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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