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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August 2, 2010

August 2, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Hariri, Qatari emir displeased with Raad’s STL speech

A Future Movement source told Al-Hayat newspaper in an interview published on Monday that Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani were not pleased with Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad’s speech, addressing matters of disputes between the Lebanese parties, on Saturday.

During the opening of the Bint Jbeil Hospital in South Lebanon on Saturday, Raad said that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) pending indictment threatened the Doha Agreement, which was signed in 2008 following the May 7 events.

Tension is high in Lebanon after reports said the STL will soon issue its indictment, in which Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah recently claimed Hezbollah members would be named, in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The announcement prompted fears that a sectarian conflict similar to the May 7 events in 2008 could once again break out.
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