The Particular Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) introduced in the present day the sentencing of two Hezbollah members, Habib Merhi and Hussein Oneissi, for his or her involvement within the killing of the previous Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
In a press release tweeted on June sixteenth, the STL mentioned that the Appeals Chamber unanimously sentenced each “Merhi and Oneissi to life imprisonment, the heaviest sentence beneath the Statute and the Guidelines, for every of the 5 crimes of which they had been convicted, and ordered that the sentences shall run concurrently.”
The UN-backed court docket sentenced them in absentia since Hezbollah had refused handy them over because it did for Salim Ayyash in 2020.
Ayyash was sentenced in absentia in December 2020 to five concurrent life sentences for the assassination of Rafik Hariri and 21 others in the identical murderous explosion.
The U.S. State Division Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program issued a press release again in March 2021 asserting a reward of as much as $10 million to assist find Ayyash, who continues to be at giant so far.
