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Hariri tribunal axes trial of slain Hezbollah commander
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 07 - 2016

A special UN court set up to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri overturned Monday an earlier decision to try in absentia a Hezbollah military chief who is thought to have died in May.
The Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon's (STL) appeals chamber found by a majority "that sufficient evidence had been presented... to establish the death of Mustafa Badreddine," it said in a statement.
The court's judges last month insisted they would continue with the trial of Badreddine and four others, despite thousands attending Badreddine's funeral in Beirut.
The tribunal's appeals judges, however, had a different opinion and "ordered the Trial Chamber to terminate proceedings against the accused" — but said the case could be reopened should new evidence come to light proving Badreddine is still alive.
Hezbollah said Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in an explosion on May 12 near Damascus international airport, in circumstances that are still shrouded in mystery.
The Shiite militant group has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Badreddine had led its intervention in support of President Bashar Al-Assad's forces, which are also backed by Russia and Iran. The STL launched proceedings against Badreddine and four other Hezbollah suspects in January 2014. They have never appeared in court.
Badreddine stood accused of masterminding the 2005 bombing that killed Lebanon's ex-prime minister Hariri, who was killed along with more than 20 others in a massive suicide car bombing on Beirut's waterfront.
The STL was set up in 2007 and is the only international ad-hoc tribunal with the jurisdiction to try an act of terror.


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