Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen held on Tuesday a confidential and ex parte hearing concerning former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed’s request to obtain documents related to his file, which he believes are in the possession of STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare.
The hearing examined which of these documents Bellemare should hand over to Sayyed, a statement issued by the STL’s press office reported.
Fransen will rule on this matter in due course, the statement added.
The STL was created to try the those responsible for the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Sayyed is one of four generals who claim they were arbitrarily detained between August 2005 and April 2009 after they made strongly worded accusations about the Hariri case.
Sayyed, together with Hezbollah and its allies, have accused security officials, politicians and judges close to the former premier's son, outgoing PM Saad Hariri, of having "manufactured" evidence to implicate them in the assassination.
The general, who claims to have been the victim of a "grand conspiracy" involving false testimony, seeks access to his criminal file for use in legal proceedings in Lebanon.
-NOW Lebanon
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