Now Lebanon - Cassese condemns attack on STL investigators - October 28, 2010

In a statement issued Wednesday evening, Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) President Antonio Cassese condemned “in the strongest of terms” a violent attack against STL investigators in Dahiyeh on Wednesday morning.A group of women charged at STL investigators at a Beirut gynecology clinic in Dahiyeh on Wednesday and grabbed a briefcase from them, AFP reported.The incident is a “deplorable attempt to obstruct justice,” the statement said, adding that “those who carried out this attack must know that violence will not deter the STL, a court of law, from fulfilling its mandate.”The statement added that Cassese “will report this regrettable incident to the government of Lebanon and to UN Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon].”
-NOW Lebanon