iloubnan- Hariri/STL: Kaoru Okuizumi sworn in Deputy Registrar, November 16, 2011

Kaoru Okuizumi was sworn in today as Deputy Registrar for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the STL press office stated in a communiqué today.

Ms Okuizumi, a Japanese national, has extensive background in international criminal justice and human rights. She has served in the Registries of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and has also been deployed to United Nations field operations in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo and Nepal. Ms Okuizumi comes to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon from the Criminal Law and Judicial Advisory Service in the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York. 

She will be working with the Registrar, Mr Herman von Hebel, to provide administrative, legal and other essential support to the Tribunal and will deputize in his absence. Ms. Okuizumi will oversee judicial services to ensure the smooth running of court proceedings.

The Deputy Registrar position has been vacant since Mr. von Hebel was appointed Registrar in December 2010.