The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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October 6, 2011

Now Lebanon - Nasrallah says cabinet will not fund STL, Al-Akhbar reports, October 6, 2011

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s visitors quoted him as saying that “the cabinet will not pay” its share of funding to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.According to the daily, Nasrallah’s visitors added that the Hezbollah chief called for “protecting the current cabinet and maintaining its [unity].”Hezbollah-led March 8 parties – which currently dominate Lebanon’s cabinet – have opposed a clause in the Lebanese annual state budget pertaining to the funding of the tribunal which is probing the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Lebanon contributes 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding.Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by the STL. However, the Shia group strongly denied the charges and refuses to cooperate with the court.

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