Daily Star - Hariri files suit against four suspects in father's killing, July 08, 2008
Future parliamentary bloc leader MP Saad Hariri filed a legal suit Monday against suspects in the killing of his father, former Premier Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005, in a bomb blast in Beirut. The case was filed by lawyer Mohammad Mattar, who is representing Hariri, at Examining Magistrate Saqr Saqr's office. The claim accused four suspects, including arrested generals Jamil al-Sayyed of General Security, Ali al-Hajj from the Internal Security Forces, Mustafa Hamdan of the Presidential Guards and Raymond Azar of military intelligence, of premeditating Hariri's assassination and designing the explosives. The claim also said accomplices, executors and any other participant in the crime must be legally punished. The claim adopted all the resolutions taken by public prosecution, the examining magistrate's decisions as well as the International Investigation Commission's releases. Sources said Hariri's legal suit came after the Lebanese judicial system received new information and documents concerning the killing from the International Investigation Commission. Sources added that the new data was very precise and helpful to the Lebanese investigations. In addition, Saqr questioned three new witnesses in the Hariri case Sunday. In related news, Sayyed's attorney, Akram Azouri, released a statement calling on President Michel Sleiman and the incoming unity government "to include, in the ministerial statement, a clause putting an end to the arbitrary arrests of the four Lebanese generals" who have been held prisoners for almost three years now. The statement said the UN had officially asked to end the generals' arbitrary detention, adding that Lebanon would not be respecting international law if the four men were kept jailed. Azouri said in his statement that the relationship between the Lebanese government and the UN must be handed over to the Foreign Ministry. "The Ministry of Justice only contributed, for the past three years, to the UN rating Lebanon as a country practicing arbitrary arrests," he stated.
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