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September 17, 2010

Now Lebanon - Mirza: Sayyed will be dealt with according to the law - September 17, 2010

In an interview with Al-Akhbar newspaper published on Friday, Attorney General Judge Said Mirza said that the Lebanese judiciary will deal with former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed according to the law.

On Thursday, Mirza requested to summon Sayyed for “threatening Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the Lebanese state and its judiciary.”

“Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar is who the one who requested to summon Sayyed… In all cases, [Sayyed] will be interrogated, based on which the case will transferred to the relevant offices of the Attorney General. They will decides if [Sayyed] will be prosecuted or not,” Mirza said.

Sayyed said on Sunday that “[PM Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),” investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, and vowed to take his right “with his own hands.”

The ex-General Security chief was detained from 2005 to 2009 on suspicion of involvement in the Rafik Hariri murder. In April 2009, the STL ordered his release due to lack of evidence.
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