BEIRUT: A French court will hold a hearing session Wednesday to hear the testimony of a former general over a slander and defamation lawsuit which he filed against a former head of an international commission looking into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.A statement by the press office of former Major General Jamil Sayyed, and which was carried by the state-run National News Agency as well, said that Sayyed was told by his attorneys in France that the judge of the Court of First Instance in Paris has set May 18 as a date for the hearing.
Sayyed, a former head of the General Security apparatus, lodged a lawsuit in 2008 against Detlev Mehlis, the former President of the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission into Hariri’s killing. Sayyed accused Mehlis of slandering him during an interview on LBC TV.
Sayyed, a former head of the General Security apparatus, lodged a lawsuit in 2008 against Detlev Mehlis, the former President of the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission into Hariri’s killing. Sayyed accused Mehlis of slandering him during an interview on LBC TV.
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