STL joins fifth Hezbollah suspect, Merhi, to Hariri case

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11-02-2014 | 06:45
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STL joins fifth Hezbollah suspect, Merhi, to Hariri case

The Trial Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued an oral ruling on Tuesday approving the Prosecution's request to join the case against Hassan Merhi to the Ayyash et al. case.

“In these circumstances, the interests of justice must favor joining the two cases", Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber, David Re, said.

Judge Re subsequently adjourned the hearing sessions until Wednesday morning.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon resumed on Tuesday its work at The Hague and allocated today's session to hear legal submissions on the possible joinder of the case against Hassan Habib Merhi to the Ayyash et al. proceedings.

The trial in absentia of the four suspects accused of killing Lebanese statesman Rafic Hariri opened in The Hague on Thursday January 16th, nine years after the bomb attack in which the former prime minister and 21 others died.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was set up by the United Nations at the Lebanese government's request to try the alleged perpetrators of the 2005 bombing in which former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others were killed.

The suspects - Mustafa Amine Badreddine, a senior Hezbollah figure and brother-in-law of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyeh, Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra - remain at large.

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