Lebanese journalist Karma Khayat, al-Jadeed TV go on trial for third day

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Lebanese journalist Karma Khayat, al-Jadeed TV go on trial for third day
Lebanese journalist Karma Khayat and al-Jadeed TV went on trial Monday, for the third day, before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague.    
 
On April 16, a prosecutor at the UN-backed court said broadcasts in 2012 by journalist Karma Khayat and the Lebanon-based Al-Jadeed TV station had risked ruining the investigation into the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafik Hariri.     
 
"If witnesses are too frightened to come to this tribunal, then this tribunal is finished," said prosecutor Kenneth Scott.      
 
Khayat and Al-Jadeed deny wrongdoing, saying the accusations were a bid to silence the media. Addressing the court, Khayat said her reports had been aimed at exposing leaks emanating from the STL -- an international body that has consumed hundreds of millions of dollars in public money.      
 
"$500 million has been paid by us for this seven-star courtroom in The Hague. It is our right to make sure these finances are being spent properly," Khayat said.       
 
Hariri and 21 others were killed in a waterfront bomb blast that upset a fragile peace in the eastern Mediterranean country, dragging it back to the brink of civil war.       
 
The tribunal was set up after Lebanese politicians said their judicial system could not cope with the investigation.        
 
Five suspects, all linked to the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, have since been indicted for the killing. They remain at large and are being tried in absentia.
 
 
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