Attorney General Judge Said Mirza said in remarks published Wednesday he will publicly announce that he received the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) indictment when he is presented with the file.
“I did not yet receive any file from the STL,” he told An-Nahar newspaper in a response to reports that the judge has already been presented with the indictment.
“If am presented with the indictment, will I hide it? Of course not because everybody will know, and I will not put it in a drawer and lock it.”
In other news, a judicial source told the Lebanese daily that Mirza did not meet with Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail on Monday.
Mirza only met with Cabinet Secretary General Souheil Bouji, who – according to the daily – was overwhelmed with the preparations of the committee responsible for drafting the Ministerial Statement, the source added.
Media outlets have reported that the STL’s indictment for the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri will soon be issued.
The new Lebanese cabinet—headed by Mikati—was formed on June 13 after almost five months of deliberations between the March 8 parties.
Before bringing down Saad Hariri’s cabinet in January, Hezbollah had been pressing him to disavow the STL, which is likely to implicate members of the Shia group for the Rafik Hariri murder.
Saad Hariri’s cabinet recognized the STL in its ministerial statement.
-NOW Lebanon
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