Chinanews, August 19, according to foreign media reports, the United Nations Special Court for Lebanon ruled on the 18th that Lebanese Hezbollah member Salim Jameel Ayash was guilty in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . In this regard, Hariri’s son and former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he and his family accepted the court’s verdict and called for "just punishment" for criminals.
The picture shows the scene of the verdict. China News Agency issued a photo courtesy of the Special Court for Lebanon
In February 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a car bomb attack in downtown Beirut. The incident also resulted in 21 other deaths and 226 injuries; in 2009, the special court established at the request of the Lebanese government was officially opened. Trial the case.
According to the report, the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague, the Netherlands, determined that the 2005 attack was politically motivated and was "a terrorist act designed to arouse the fear of the Lebanese people."
Data map: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The verdict showed that an assassination team planned the attack under the envoy of Lebanese Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayash, and Ayash, as a "joint principal", committed the crime of intentional homicide (causing Hariri And 21 other deaths), attempted homicide (causing 226 injuries), terrorist attack, and conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack.
Also accused along with Ayash is the senior commander of Hezbollah Mustafa Amin Badrdine. As one of the founders of Hezbollah, Badeldin was suspected of causing the bombing of the US and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983, but in 2016 Hezbollah confirmed that he was killed in Syria.
"We accept the judgment of the court and hope that justice will be served," Saad Hariri said after the sentence, calling for "just punishment" for the offender.