Pre-Trial Judge Receives List of Names in Hariri Murder Case
Lebanon has handed over a list of those detained over the 2005 murder of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri to the U.N. tribunal that will try the suspected assassins, The Hague-based court said Wednesday.
"The list of names has been received by the pre-trial judge. He will deliver them to the prosecutor," tribunal spokeswoman Susan Khan told Agence France Presse.
The Central News Agency quoted a judicial source as saying the file contains the testimonies of 424 witnesses in addition to documents involving the questioning of detainees and other suspects that have been released.
Other boxes with papers and evidence, which were still awaited "will be transmitted directly to the office of the prosecutor," Khan said.
CNA said surveillance cameras were set up around the houses of four detained Lebanese generals on Tuesday amid speculation they would be released under house arrest.
But a Lebanese investigating judge lifted Wednesday arrest warrants against the generals jailed since 2005 in connection with Hariri”s murder.
Judge Saqr Saqr also ordered that the four remain in jail pending a decision on their fate by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).
STL was created by a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2007. It has an initial, renewable, three-year mandate and 11 judges, four of them Lebanese.