The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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July 13, 2010

July 13, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Sakr: The STL is a transparent court

Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr told Al-Arabiya television on Tuesday that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is not part of a conspiracy and everything indicates the court is transparent.

The tribunal on Tuesday held a public hearing on former Brigadier General Jamil as-Sayyed’s request for court files related to his detention in Lebanon from 2005 to 2009 on allegations of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Due to a lack of evidence, Sayyed was released on April 29, 2009 without having been formally charged by the STL. He is seeking the files to bolster his claim that he was the victim of slander and was arbitrarily detained.

Sakr called on the STL to also look into the slander case of Mohammed Zuhair al-Siddiq, a former Syrian intelligence officer, who told investigators that Syria was behind the Hariri murder.
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