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Government Backs Detention of Ex-Generals in Hariri Murder

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Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Prime Minister Fouad Saniora's government has conveyed a letter to the U.N. office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights backing the detention of the four pro-Syrian ex-generals charged with involvement in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. "The arrest of the four former security chiefs and four other people is in compliance with Lebanese and international laws," said the letter. The four generals are: Brig. Gen. Mustafa Hamdan, ex-commander of the Presidential Guards Brigade, Brig. Gen. Raymond Azar, ex-director general of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, ex-chief of General Security, and Maj. Gen. Ali Hajj, former director general of the Internal Security Forces. The letter said that a decision by Investigating Magistrate Saqr Saqr to hold the seven detainees in custody "was in line with articles 108 and 363 of the Lebanese penal code." "Articles 108 and 363 are clear and state that the period of reserve detention is unlimited if the case has been assigned to the Judicial Council and if the crime reflects on state security," the letter explained. It said Saqr wished to keep the seven detainees in captivity, "in order to protect their lives and prevent them from seeking refuge in another country, which is likely to have harmful effects on the overall probe." The letter said that Saqr sees that their detention is essential so long as the international investigation committee and the Lebanese judiciary have not completed the probe into Hariri's Feb. 2005 murder.

 

 

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