Special Tribunal for Lebanon Delivers Verdict over 2005 Killing of Former PM Rafik al-Hariri

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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Author: 
Michael Plachta
Volume: 
36
Issue: 
8
Abstract: 

On August 18, 2020, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) delivered a long-overdue judgment in the Ayyash et al. case concerning the February 14, 2005 attack in Beirut that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others, and injured 226 more. The four accused were tried in absentia: Messrs Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hassan Habib Merhi, Hussein Hassan Oneissi, and Assad Hassan Sabra.