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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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