The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Appeals Chamber judges are headed to The Hague for their annual meeting to be held in November, Al-Markaziya news agency reported on Tuesday.
The agency quoted an anonymous source as saying that the chamber is expected to make a decision regarding STL Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare’s September appeal of Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen’s ruling allowing former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed to request STL files related to his detention.
STL President Antonio Cassese will probably make a decision within two days about Sayyed’s request that Judges Ralph Riachi and Afif Shamseddine be recused from the chamber, the source added.
The source also said that Bellemare has canceled a planned trip to the US in order to remain in the Hague to follow-up on the appeal as well as the recent attack on STL investigators in Dahiyeh.
Earlier in October Cassese named the judges to the chamber that will examine the appeal filed by Bellemare regarding Sayyed’s request for files related to his four year detention.
Sayyed was arrested in 2005 on suspicion of involvement in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination and was released in 2009 due to lack of evidence. In March 2010, he requested that the tribunal give him access to his investigation’s files so that he could take legal action against witnesses he says gave false testimony against him.
Fransen held a special hearing for Sayyed’s file request in July, then ruled on September 17 that the request falls within the tribunal’s jurisdiction and that Sayyed has legal standing before the court.
The agency quoted an anonymous source as saying that the chamber is expected to make a decision regarding STL Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare’s September appeal of Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen’s ruling allowing former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed to request STL files related to his detention.
STL President Antonio Cassese will probably make a decision within two days about Sayyed’s request that Judges Ralph Riachi and Afif Shamseddine be recused from the chamber, the source added.
The source also said that Bellemare has canceled a planned trip to the US in order to remain in the Hague to follow-up on the appeal as well as the recent attack on STL investigators in Dahiyeh.
Earlier in October Cassese named the judges to the chamber that will examine the appeal filed by Bellemare regarding Sayyed’s request for files related to his four year detention.
Sayyed was arrested in 2005 on suspicion of involvement in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination and was released in 2009 due to lack of evidence. In March 2010, he requested that the tribunal give him access to his investigation’s files so that he could take legal action against witnesses he says gave false testimony against him.
Fransen held a special hearing for Sayyed’s file request in July, then ruled on September 17 that the request falls within the tribunal’s jurisdiction and that Sayyed has legal standing before the court.
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