Now Lebanon - No report on implementation of arrest warrants handed to STL - August 08, 2011

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) spokesperson Marten Youssef said in an interview – which is to be fully published on Tuesday - with Al-Balad newspaper that, “until now,” the STL has not received from relevant Lebanese authorities any report on the issue of the tribunal’s arrest warrants, or the measures taken by Lebanese local authorities in order to carry them out.
“August 11 is the deadline for the Lebanese authorities to inform the STL of the measures it took to search for the accused [people], detain them and transfer them to the [STL],” Youssef said.
He added, however, that it is up to STL President Judge Antonio Cassese to decide whether the Lebanese cabinet needs more time to submit the data it has.
After the STL indicted four members of the Iranian- Syrian-backed Hezbollah group in connection to the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ruled out their arrest.