Lebanon: From Hariri assassination to verdict
BEIRUT - The special tribunal trying the four suspects accused of the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafic Hariri is expected to deliver its verdict on Tuesday .A massive suicide bomb tears through Mr Hariri's armoured convoy on the Beirut seafront in February 2005, killing him and 21 other people.
Later that year, a United Nations commission says there is evidence that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services were involved in the killing.In 2007, following a UN Security Council resolution, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is established to try those accused of carrying out the attack. Nasrallah rejects the charges along with"each and every void accusation" by the court, which he says is heading for a trial in absentia.
According to the prosecution, Badreddine and Ayyash organised and carried out the attack, while Oneissi and Sabra are accused of delivering a video to the broadcaster Al Jazeera with a false claim of responsibility, to protect the real killers.In May 2016, Hizbollah announces Badreddine's death in an attack in Syria.
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