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Trying Russian leaders in absentia: What would be the pros and cons?
26 January 2023 by Julia Crawford
Even if, as some are advocating, an international tribunal were set up to try the Russian crime of aggression in Ukraine, it would probably not get President Vladimir Putin and his top aides in custody any time soon, or ever. This [...]
A man holds a picture of Rafiq Hariri in his hands Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s “second best justice”
17 March 2022 by Janet H. Anderson
On March 10 judges of the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the earlier acquittal of two defendants. Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi were found guilty on charges of terrorism and murder for [...]
Portrait of Lokman Slim In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations
3 February 2022 by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
The Lokman Slim Foundation was officially launched in Beirut on February 3 this year, exactly one year after the assassination of the Lebanese intellectual whose name it bears. This exceptional new research centre documents the nu [...]
A phoenix mixed with the logo of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Lebanon Tribunal’s back from the dead – for a moment
24 September 2021 by Janet Anderson
In a dramatic declaration, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon said in June it would have to close by the end of July due to lack of funds. Instead, phoenix-like, it’s slimmed down, raised some cash and will be holding appeals hearin [...]
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Buildings of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, near The Hague in the Netherlands
4 June 2021 by Janet H Anderson
The inglorious end of the Lebanon tribunal On June 2, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced it would have to close by the end of July due to lack of funds. The next day it said all proceedings in a new trial due to open on June 16 were suspended. Lebanon is bankrupt a [...]
8 January 2021 by Habib Nassar
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The mountain that gave birth to a mouse Last month, the Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) pronounced its first sentence since its creation 13 years ago. Lebanese lawyer and activist Habib Nassar has closely monitored the STL since its inception. He describe [...]
11 December 2020 by AFP
Lebanon: STL symbolically sentences Ayyash to life imprisonment A symbolic life sentence was handed down this Friday in the Netherlands against an alleged member of Hezbollah, Salim Ayyash, tried in absentia for taking part in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hari [...]
7 July 2020 by Tjitske Lingsma
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Billion dollar trial 15 years of investigations, 970 million dollars at a minimum, no prisoner, and still no verdict. The first terrorism judgment before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, announced for mid-May, has been postponed to an unknown date. O [...]
25 May 2020 by Ruth Artiles Valero
How the arts can serve justice in post-war Lebanon Many artistic efforts have failed to provide a common-ground for authentic reconciliation in post-war Lebanon because they continue to rely on the construction of privatised narratives, argues scholar Ruth Artiles Valero. Lebanon [...]
20 September 2019 by Victoria Yan
Lebanon: new indictment, old troubles On September 16, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon disclosed a second indictment, eight years after its first one on the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The new indictment deals with three othe [...]
24 September 2018 by Stephanie van den Berg
Lebanon Tribunal: What is a trial without suspects for? The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is rounding up its case against four accused over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and others. Closing arguments took place in The Hague between September 11 [...]
7 June 2018 by Nour El Bejjani Noureddine, ICTJ
Lebanon Edges Closer Toward Truth for Families of the Missing and Disappeared Life continues to stand still for the many families of the missing and disappeared in Lebanon who have been desperately trying to uncover the fate of their loved ones and who are holding out hope of seeing them someday. The Lebane [...]
17 May 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Swiss judge delivers harsh criticism of Lebanon Tribunal Robert Roth, professor of law at the University of Geneva and former judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has for the first time explained why he resigned from that court in September 2013. He points in particular to a lack o [...]
14 September 2017 by AFP
A movie takes on taboos of Lebanon's civil war Nearly three decades after it ended, Lebanon's civil war returned to haunt Beirut this week at a screening of the film "The Insult," which forcefully explores the taboos of the conflict. The movie opened to rave reviews at the Ven [...]
15 July 2016 by AFP
Lebanese paper, editor guilty of contempt: Hariri tribunal A special UN court set up to try the killers of ex Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri convicted a Beirut-based newspaper and its editor of contempt Friday for publishing information about confidential witnesses in the case. "I find bot [...]
22 February 2016 by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: Lebanon’s Missing Persons and Africa vs the ICC Transitional justice is not just about big trials, Truth Commissions and reconciliation processes. This week, Justiceinfo.net looked at the missing persons from Lebanon’s wars, forgotten by history and by a weak State. A governmen [...]
10 February 2016 by Lynn Maalouf
No resolution for the missing persons in Lebanon “I was 13 the day I disappeared; the day my mother was left without her only child; the day my life was cut short. Many others went missing like me, and their families still await to know what happened to them. Do not let our stor [...]
7 December 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project, associate professor at Neuchâtel University
The Time Bomb that is Lebanon In Lebanon, the last household waste processing centre stopped working on July 17. The country has been buried in tons of rubbish for weeks. Parents are worried about mounds of waste in front of schools that could put their childr [...]