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March 13, 2012

The Daily Star - New STL Prosecutor Farrell sworn in, March 13, 2012


BEIRUT: The international court investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has sworn in the court’s new prosecutor, Norman Farrell, as well as the new Appeals Chamber judge, Daniel Nsereko, the court said in a statement.
"It is my devout hope and expectation that, with both Prosecution and Defense teams in place and the Chambers now back to full strength, we can together deliver justice in accordance with the law," said Judge Sir David Baragwanath, the head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, during the swearing in ceremony, the court said on its website Monday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced in late February Farrell’s appointment as the new STL prosecutor to replace his predecessor Judge Daniel Bellemare.
Farrell is a Canadian jurist with extensive experience in international law, currently serving as deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The ICTY’s prosecutor is Serge Brammertz, who led the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission – the STL’s predecessor – from 2006 to 2007.
The STL said Farrell would join upon the completion of his mandate as the ICTY deputy prosecutor.
Judge Daniel Nsereko of Uganda was until recently a Judge at the International Criminal Court. A biography of Judge Nsereko is also available on the Tribunal's website.
In late February Ban also announced the appointment of Nsereko to take the late Antonio Cassese’s seat in the court’s Appeals Chamber. Following Cassese’s resignation, Baragwanath was elected as STL president, but the Appeals Chamber, which normally comprises three international and two Lebanese judges, remained one judge short.
Seventy-one-year old Nsereko has sat on various appeals chambers at the ICC, in cases involving the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda, the Central African Republic and Sudan.
Nsereko served as a trial observer to Swaziland in 1990 and to Ethiopia in 1996 prior to his appointment as an ICC appeals judge. From 1983 to 1984, he served as expert consultant for the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch of the U.N. Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs.



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