Politics of Lebanon - Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Cedar Revolution, List of Political Parties in Lebanon, Water Politics in the Middle East (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Cedar Revolution, List of political parties in Lebanon, Water politics in the Middle East, Assassination of Rafic Hariri, Greater Syria, 2011 Lebanese protests, Parliament of Lebanon, Phoenicianism, Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth, International rankings of Lebanon, Members of the 2005-2009 Lebanese Parliament, National Pact, King of Syria, Military Intelligence, Lebanese nationality law, List of Speakers of the Parliament of Lebanon, March 14 alliance, Constitution of Lebanon, Lebanese Option Gathering, Gamma Group, Marada Institution, Free Shia Movement, List of members of the 1st Lebanese Parliament, Lebanese-Syrian Security Apparatus, Harakat Majd, Lebanese Democratic Movement, Lebanese Unification Movement. Excerpt: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is an international tribunal for the prosecution under Lebanese law of those responsible for the assassination of Rafic Hariri on February 14, 2005. The tribunal also has jurisdiction over a series of other attacks in Lebanon (between 1 October 2004 and 12 December 2005) if they are proven to be connected with the Hariri assassination. The court is based in Leidschendam, near The Hague, in the Netherlands and it has a field office in the Lebanese capital Beirut. The tribunal officially opened on 1 March 2009. There was an initial three year mandate for the court and there is no fixed timeline for the judicial work to be completed, so the tribunal may be operational for several years. In March 2011, Antonio Cassese, the president of the Tribunal, issued his second annual report on the operation and activities of the tribunal in which he anticipated the completion of the bulk of the court's work by 2015. "The end of investigations with a view to submitting indictments by 29 February 2012 would allow us to begin with maximum alacri...