STL President Ends Working Visit to Lebanon

The President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Judge Ivana Hrdličková, visited Beirut this week and met with Lebanese officials and counterparts to update them on the work of the Tribunal, STL said Friday.

“Hrdličková and Vice President Judge Ralph Riachi met with the Minister of Justice Salim Jreissati and the Prosecutor General Judge Samir Hammoud. They also met representatives of the diplomatic community in Lebanon,” an STL statement said.

Hrdličková and Riachi participated in a number of outreach events, including two briefings on the STL's latest judicial developments to a group of Lebanese NGOs, and ambassadors and academics at the American University of Science and Technology (AUST).

“My visit this week to Lebanon aimed at meeting with the Lebanese officials, the diplomatic community as well as the civil society to update them on the latest judicial developments at the Tribunal and more specifically on the end of trial hearings preceding the upcoming Judgment in the Ayyash et al. case,” said Judge Hrdličková.

The STL President also gave a lecture on “Evidence before international criminal tribunals and the specifics of evidence before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon" to students and professors at the Beirut Arab University.

Finally, Judge Riachi, Vice President of the Tribunal, was presented with the Légion d’honneur by the Ambassador of France to Lebanon during a ceremony at the Pine Residence.