According to local media reports later on the 5th, the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri postponed the verdict until August 18. In February 2005, Rafik Hariri, who had resigned as prime minister, was killed in a car bomb attack in Beirut. The United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon (UNIFIL) filed an indictment of the Hariri assassination to the Lebanese prosecutors in 2011, and filed a lawsuit against four Lebanese Hezbollah members. As a political and military force in Lebanon, Hezbollah rejected the UNIFIL allegations and denied that it was related to Hariri's assassination. (Headquarters reporter Guan Panpan)