Mirza Inquires TIME Correspondent about Interview with Hariri Murder Suspect
General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza met on Monday with TIME magazine correspondent Nicholas Blanford over an article to which an interview with one of the four suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination was added.
Blanford, one of the co-writers of the TIME article, has denied that he conducted the interview with the unidentified suspect, saying that he only wrote the article on the indictment published by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Hizbullah’s stance from it.
Media reports said Blanford arrived at the Justice Palace accompanied by his lawyer.
Mirza told al-Joumhouria daily that he would question Blanford on the issue and then take the necessary legal measures.
The suspect, a Hizbullah member, has said in the interview: “The Lebanese authorities know where I live, and if they wanted to arrest me they would have done it a long time ago. Simply, they cannot.”
Mirza has categorically denied that the prosecution or the police are aware of the place of residence of any of the four suspects and have not proceeded with the arrests as called for by the STL.
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