The Daily Star - STL chief urges an end to wrangling in Hariri case - May 27, 2011

BEIRUT: The legal wrangling concerning the disclosure of documents related to a former suspect in the United Nations-backed probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri must be resolved by next month, the court’s president has said.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) president Antonio Cassese, in a scheduling order for the appeals process in the court’s decision to allow former general Jamil Sayyed access to hundreds of documents, said the Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare must file any responses he may have to the files’ release before June 22.

Sayyed was detained without charge for four years following Hariri’s murder and has applied to the court to obtain documents he believes will prove his incarceration was illegal.

Pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen ruled earlier this month that Sayyed was eligible to see the files.