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"The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) (المحكمة الخاصة بلبنان, Tribunal
spécial pour le Liban) is a tribunal of international character, whose official
languages are Arabic, French and English, established to hold trials for the
people
accused of carrying out the attack of 14 February 2005 which killed 23,
including the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, and injured many
others. The seat of the tribunal is in the Netherlands; it has Lebanese and
international staff, and tries people under Lebanese criminal law.
The Tribunal was established by an agreement between the United Nations
and the Lebanese government pursuant to Security Council
resolution 1664 (2006) of 29 March 2006. The United Nations Security Council,
acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, endorsed the
agreement on 30 May 2007 (Security Council Resolution 1757 (2007)).
"For reasons of security, administrative efficiency and fairness, the tribunal
has its seat outside Lebanon, in Leidschendam, on the
outskirts
of The Hague, The Netherlands. The premises of the Tribunal is the former
Algemene Inlichtingen- en VeiligheidsDienst (AIVD) building. It was announced in
March 2010 that the STL courtroom would also serve as a courtroom for the
Special Court for Sierra Leone.
The Special Tribunal is a "hybrid" international court, similar to the
Special
Court for Sierra Leone and the
Extraordinary
Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The STL does not apply
international criminal law, but rather Lebanese criminal law (Article 2 of the
Statute of the Special Tribunal). Accordingly, it also is similar to the Section
I for War Crimes and Section II for Organized Crime, Economic
Crime and
Corruption of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions of the Court of Bosnia and
Herzegovina which has such "hybrid" chambers."
Sources:
http://www.stl-tsl.org/en/ask-the-tribunal/what-is-the-stl
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Tribunal_for_Lebanon
"The STL is the first tribunal of an international character to deal with
terrorism as a distinct crime committed outside the context of an armed conflict.
The Tribunal was established by UN Security Council Resolution 1757 (2007),
which reaffirmed that the attack of 14 February 2005 and its implications
constituted a “threat to international peace and security”. In its decision of
16 February 2011 on the law to be applied by the Tribunal, the STL’s Appeals
Chamber clarified that the Tribunal applies Lebanese domestic law – including
the crime of terrorism stipulated in Article 314 of the Lebanese Criminal Code –
in consonance with international conventional and customary law. The Appeals
Chamber’s decision also defined terrorism as a crime under customary
international law for the first time."
Sources:
http://www.stl-tsl.org/images/stories/thecases/cis/20140114-Ayyash_Case_Info_Sheet_EN.pdf
For additional information go to STL (official
website)
https://www.facebook.com/STLebanon
Esteban Rivera, 29 November 2014
Its flag is seen
here,
here and
here. It's a horizontal flag, with a light blue column to the hoist and the rest being
plain white, with the
logo in the middle. The logo mixes the universal symbol of justice (the
scale or balance) and the
cedar tree.
Esteban Rivera, 29 November 2014