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 16, 2011

Now lebanon - Wahhab says STL is “under our feet”, October 16, 2011

Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab said on Sunday that even if “the Special Tribunal for Lebanon [STL] is funded, [it does not matter] because the STL is under our feet,” LBC television reported.
“Only the decisions of the resistance of Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq were able to change formulas, restore Lebanese land and [free] prisoners in Lebanon and Palestine,” Wahhab said during a ceremony to lay a foundation stone of a hospital funded by Iran.
Wahhab also called on those who are “enthusiastic to fund the STL and who have a lot of real estate to fund it using their own money and not the Lebanese people’s money,” in a possible reference to Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who has repeatedly said Lebanon is committed to international resolutions including those related to the tribunal.
Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by the STL probing the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. However, the Shia group strongly denied the charges and refuses to cooperate with the court.
Hezbollah and other March 8 parties and figures have spoken out against Lebanon’s ties and funding for the tribunal, calling it a tool to incite sectarian strife in Lebanon.
Lebanon contributes 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding

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