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First public session of Special Tribunal for Lebanon

20 January 2014

The first public session of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was held on 16 January 2014, at The Hague.
As it’s name indicates, this court is special, meaning that it isn’t a court in the legal sense of the word. As specified by the then Secretary-General of the United-Nations, Kofi Annan: (...)

Special Tribunal for Lebanon appoints new President

12 October 2011

Judge Antonio Cassese has resigned as a member and President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. In a statement, he justified his decision on health grounds. In fact, the situation had become untenable ever since our revelations on his previous entanglements triggered a controversy. Lebanese (...)

Hariri: an audio tape unveils fabrication of false testimonies

17 January 2011

On 15 January NewTV, an independent Lebanese television network, released an audio tape of a secret meeting, held in Marbella (Spain) in 2005. It was attented by (from left to right on the still used to illustrate the audio tape): Saad el-Hariri (son of the slain former Prime Minister), (...)

Revelations on Rafik Hariri’s assassination

by Thierry Meyssan

Moscow (Russia) | 29 November 2010

While western media have announced that indictments against Hezbollah will be issued shortly by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, it is the entire UN investigation that Russian magazine Odnako is calling into question. Thierry Meyssan posits that the weapon used to assassinate former Prime (...)

The STL tries to reconstruct official version of Rafik Hariri’s assassination

24 October 2010

On 19 October 2010, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), based near The Hague, attempted to re-enact the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, five years after the event.
Unlike the name suggests, the STL is not a judiciary entity and is not akin to any of the (...)

General Beg accuses Blackwater (Xe) of Bhutto’s & Hariri’s assassinations on Washington’s behalf

27 September 2009

During an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 20 September 2009, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.) accused the United States of assassinating Pakistani prime minister Benzair Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri. He specified that the assassinations had been carried out (...)

Judicial Colonialism

The Assassination of Rafik Hariri: A Biased Investigation

by Silvia Cattori

Berlin (Germany) | 15 September 2006

A former criminal investigator of the GDR, who became a journalist after the reunification of Germany, Jürgen Cain Külbel is the author of a counter-investigation on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, which the Voltaire Network presented to the Arab public during (...)

Security Council adopts unanimously resolution 1644 concerning former lebanese Prime minister Hariri assassination

New York (USA) | 15 December 2005

Following is the complete text of resolution 1644 (2005)
“The Security Council,
“Reaffirming all its previous relevant resolutions, including resolutions 1595 (2005) of 7 April 2005, 1373 (2001) of 28 September 2001, and 1566 (2004) of 8 October 2004, and reaffirming in particular (...)

Hariri Assassination: No more need for evidence against Syria?

by Voltaire Network

22 November 2005

After the attack that caused the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and another 22 people, we saw how quickly the Atlantist editorialists and “experts” accused Syria. These analysts used no evidence to launch their accusations against Damascus and, thus, today they accept (...)