STL Status Conference in Case against Amin, Al-Akhbar Set for September 12
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Special Tribunal for Lebanon Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri issued on Tuesday an order scheduling a status conference in the case against Akhbar Beirut S.A.L. and Ibrahim Mohamed Ali al-Amin for September 12.
In his order, Lettieri invited Amin to participate in the status conference, which will start at 3 PM (CET), announced the STL in a statement.
The hearing will cover issues related to counsel's representation of the Accused, the state of the pre-trial proceedings, and any other matter of relevance that the Parties wish to discuss.
The scheduling order follows a decision by a panel of judges dismissing Amin’s request to disqualify Lettieri from hearing the case.
Akhbar Beirut S.A.L. and Amin are charged with “knowingly and willfully interfering with the administration of justice by publishing information on purported confidential witnesses in the Ayyash et al. Case.”
New TV S.A.L. and deputy head of news at al-Jadeed television Karma Tahsin al-Khayat have been also accused of the same charges.
An initial hearing for the two journalists and their media organizations was held on May 13 at the STL headquarters in The Hague.
Al-Jadeed Director General Dmitry Khodr and Khayat entered pleas of not guilty.
Amin did not attend the session.
In April last year, a list of 167 names of so-called witnesses for the former Premier Rafik Hariri trial was published by a previously unknown group identified as "Journalists for the Truth."
The group said it wanted to "unveil the corruption" of the STL.
Both al-Akhbar and al-Jadeed published the list.
09 September 2014, 15:10
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a thug disguised as a journalist. A well known sectarian, inciter, and propagandist.
09 September 2014, 19:25
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What do you call an Aussie who scores well in an IQ test ? A cheat.
09 September 2014, 15:44
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does he write in english roar since you don't read or write arabic? fake fake fake
09 September 2014, 17:00
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The last time Ibrahim al-Amin appeared before the STL Contempt Judge the self styled poster boy for free speech and freedom of the press, who suggested that Shiites who dared disagree with Hezballah "need to fear for their lives from the fury of the public" (Al-Akhbar 09 17 2012 ), was so keen on showing his pedigree as the designated fighter for free speech and freedom of the press sat in front of a big North Korean flag. I guess he could not find a Stalinist or a South African Nasionale Party flag so he went with what, in his view, was the next best thing to symbolize those freedoms he hold so dear. I hear that for his next session al-Amin will sit next to a life size statue of Attila the Hun.
09 September 2014, 17:37
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I agree he is entitled to pause in front whatever and whoever he wants and I will fight for his right to do so no questions asked. On the other hand I am sure the stripping pimp learned the poster thing from years of watching apes parading and swearing allegiance to a bunch of Iranian used flying carpets dealers. Apes like you who have a habit of seeing at women as nothing but pimped whores who are not clean enough to shake hands with.
09 September 2014, 19:27
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An Australian is someone who thinks that the three major political parties in Australia are Labour, Liberal and Cocktail.
