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PRESS REVIEW

March 24, 2010 - Ya Libnan - STL: Investigation of Hariri’s assassination has entered a “decisive stage.”


A high-ranking judicial source confirmed that the investigation of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has entered a “decisive stage.”

“We are moving ahead with indictments,” the high-ranking official said in remarks published Wednesday Asharq al-Awsat newspaper .

Meanwhile, New TV said sources close to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon requested to summon six Hezbollah members for questioning .

Among those requested to be summoned were Abdul Majid Ghamloush, al-Hajj Salim, Mustafa Badreddine and Qassem Suleiman, according to New TV.

It said the investigation committee confirmed that Hezbollah was willing to cooperate with the international tribunal “which it welcomes in its southern suburbs bastion in order to find the truth.”

STL prosecutor’s spokeswoman Radhia Achouri has said that the investigation committee was “undertaking an actual 3D modeling of the Hariri crime scene to reconstruct the scene and whatever happened there using digital scanning techniques.”

A U.N. tribunal based in The Hague was set up by a Security Council resolution in 2007 to prosecute suspects in the assassination of Hariri who was killed in a massive bomb explosion near Saint George Hotel February 14, 2005.

Achouri said the filming would be finalized within 10 days but denied it was linked to recent progress in the investigation.

“It is happening now because it is possible and has nothing to do with the actual progress of the investigation for the time being,” she said.

“It was an issue of establishing the need. We deemed it necessary and can now afford to do it physically and in terms of resources,” Achouri added.

Before the STL was set up, a U.N. commission of inquiry said it had found evidence to implicate Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officers in the Hariri murder, but there are currently no suspects in custody.

The murder has widely blamed on Syria. Damascus, however, denied any involvement.

In May 2009 the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed that Hezbollah is behind the assassination of 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