Special Tribunal for
Lebanon Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen has set a timeline for the submission of
preliminary motions challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal, announced the
STL in a statement on Monday.
“In order to ensure the
preparation of a fair and expeditious trial, Fransen convened a status
conference on April 12, 2012,” it said.
“He decided that any
preliminary motions challenging the tribunal's jurisdiction must be filed by
May 4, 2012,” added the statement
The deadline to submit
other preliminary motions will be decided in due course.
The tribunal is probing
the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
In an indictment unsealed
in August 2011, it accused four Hizbullah members of being involved in the
crime, calling on Lebanese authorities to apprehend them.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed
Hassan Nasrallah has said he doubted the four indictees will ever be found and
has branded the tribunal a U.S.-Israeli conspiracy aimed at bringing down the
party.
Salim Ayyash, Mustafa
Badreddine, Hussein Oneissi, and Assad Sabra are wanted for the February 2005
suicide car bomb attack in Beirut
Ayyash and Badreddine face
five charges including that of "committing a terrorist act by means of an
explosive device" and homicide, while Oneissi and Sabra faced charges of
conspiring to commit the same acts.
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