The Dutch government has invited UN representatives to discuss final arrangements for the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon it has agreed to host to try suspects for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said Monday in a letter to the Dutch parliament . The UN delegation […]

Indiscriminate airstrikes” by Israel were responsible for the majority of civilian casualties during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict , according to a 249-page report issued Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW investigated about 500 of the reported 900 civilian deaths. Its report specifically refutes Israeli assertions that civilian casualties were due to Hezbollah […]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday said that he will appoint judges to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon as soon as sufficient funding for the tribunal is in place by the end of 2007. The secretary-general estimates that the tribunal, established to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , will […]

Lebanon’s Supreme Judicial Council convened Monday to discuss the nomination of 12 Lebanese judges to be considered by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for appointment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon , established under UN Security Council Resolution 1757 [PDF text] to investigate and try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik […]

The UN Security Council Wednesday approved a resolution to establish an ad hoc international tribunal to investigate and try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . The move passed in a 10-0 vote, with China, Russia, Indonesia, Qatar and South Africa abstaining; nine votes were required for passage. […]

UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel has been unable to break a deadlock within the Lebanese government preventing approval of an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Michel told the UN Security Council Wednesday. Michel traveled to Lebanon last month in an effort […]

UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel promised Tuesday that a tribunal to try suspects in the

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced [statement] Friday that he is dispatching UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel [official profile] to assist the Lebanese government and “the country’s other political leaders to end their political impasse and set up a special tribunal as soon as possible” to bring the suspected plotters behind the high-profile assassination […]

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora Wednesday sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the UN to establish a tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . The anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanon parliament last week over the objections of the country’s pro-Syria opposition. Parliament speaker Nabih Berri , a […]

UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel will meet with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri about the latter’s efforts at stalling the establishment of an international tribunal to probe the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri [official website], UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters Thursday. Earlier this week the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese […]