STL Appoints New Deputy Registrar
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Kaoru Okuizumi was sworn in Wednesday as deputy registrar for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, announced the tribunal in a statement.
Okuizumi, a Japanese national, has extensive background in international criminal justice and human rights, it said.
She has served in the Registries of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and has also been deployed to United Nations field operations in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo and Nepal.
Okuizumi comes to the STL from the Criminal Law and Judicial Advisory Service in the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York, the statement added.
She will be working with Registrar Herman von Hebel to provide administrative, legal and other essential support to the tribunal and will deputize in his absence.
She will oversee judicial services to ensure the smooth running of court proceedings.
The deputy registrar position has been vacant since von Hebel was appointed registrar in December 2010.
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Lehman and Mehlis also have an extensive background in international criminal justice and human rights, as well as an extensive history as corrupt individuals, fabricators and thieves, typical of the kind that Hariri Mafia likes to work with. Just look at Geagea, Jumblatt and the remaining thieves and the other outlaws.
