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2020-12-12 International-UN-NGOs
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UN Tribunal Sentences Hizbullah Member to Life in Absentia in Hariri Assassination
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[AnNahar] A U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced a member of the  Hizbullah
...Party of God , a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
group to life imprisonment Friday for his involvement in the 2005 liquidation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The defendant, Salim Ayyash, has never been arrested and was not in court at the Special Tribunal for Leb
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 ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
for Friday's sentencing hearing.
The tribunal convicted Ayyash in August of being a co-perpetrator in five charges linked to the suicide truck bombing on Beirut's seafront on Feb. 14, 2005. The huge blast killed Hariri and 21 others and injured 226.
"Mr. Ayyash participated in an act of terrorism that caused mass murder. His role ... was vital to the success of the attack," Presiding Judge David Re said.
"The trial chamber is satisfied that it should impose the maximum sentence for each of the five crimes of life imprisonment, to be served concurrently," Re added.
The court issued new international arrest warrants for Ayyash and authorized its prosecutor to ask international law enforcement agency Interpol to issue "red notices" to its member states seeking his arrest.
Three other Hizbullah members were acquitted in August of all charges that they also were involved in the killing that sent shock waves through the Middle East.
Only two judges and a small team of court officials were present in the courtroom Friday amid coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
restrictions, with other judges and lawyers attending the hearing remotely.
In a verdict met with disappointment in Beirut in August, the tribunal ruled that there was no evidence that the Hizbullah leadership and Syria were involved in the attack, despite saying the liquidation happened as Hariri and his political allies were discussing calling for an "immediate and total withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon."
On Friday, one of the trial judges, Janet Nosworthy, said the liquidation "most probably had to have involved a state actor" and that the state "with most to gain from Mr. Hariri's elimination most likely was Syria."
Re also strongly suggested that Hizbullah has been shielding Ayyash from justice, pointing to speeches by its leader warning against any attempts to arrest any of the suspects when they were indicted by the tribunal.
"In my view, a strong inference is available from the above as to who has been shielding him from justice for all of these years," Re said, in a reference to the Hizbullah statements.
The trial chamber recommended that Lebanon establish a nationwide compensation scheme for victims of crimes and that the Special Tribunal should set up a trust fund for victims made up of voluntary contributions.
Re also said he made a declaration in the written sentencing judgment, which was not immediately available, on "some issues of judicial integrity" at the tribunal, including what he called attempts by judges to interfere with witness testimony during the trial and "financial impropriety."
"I'm calling on the Secretary General of the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
to intervene to restore judicial probity and integrity at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon," Re said. 
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