Fransen Rejects Indictment Amendment, Baragwanath Suspends Defining 'Criminal Association'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Judge Sir David Baragwanath, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, has decided to temporarily suspend proceedings to define the crime of “criminal association”, following Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen’s rejection of the Prosecutor’s request to amend the indictment, the STL said on Friday.
“The Prosecution had filed a confidential request to amend the indictment on 8 February and sought to add a count of ‘criminal association’ to the indictment. The Pre-Trial Judge then asked the Appeals Chamber to define ‘criminal association’, which is an offence under the Lebanese Criminal Code (article 335),” the tribunal announced in a statement.
Fransen later rejected the Prosecution’s request in a confidential decision on March 13, the STL said, noting that the rejection was based on “procedural grounds.”
Baragwanath has now asked the parties and the Defense Office to make submissions on whether the Appeals Chamber should continue with the process of defining “criminal association,” the STL added.
16 March 2012, 22:14
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It means that the International Court, unlike kangaroo courts we know of, follows laws and procedures to decide issues not the whims of dictators and theocrats. That be the difference between a democratic and an autocratic system the latter of which appears to be your favorite.
17 March 2012, 01:39
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It is called following laws, rules, due process and procedure unlike in some known kangaroo courts that you seem to favor.
18 March 2012, 08:56
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the filthy zionist media terrorists wanted to say something, but at first he was so mad that he just punched the keyboard.
than he hallucinated about kangaroo courts.
zionist hallucinations now include exotic animals from another side of the globe.
18 March 2012, 08:57
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the filthy zionist media terrorist, filth and slime, rat and worm, scum and trash, if full of hatred again.
nothing new.
17 March 2012, 06:39
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I'll explain, the guys representing Hezbollah in the STL rejected the guys representing hariri attempt to use a Lebanese law called criminal association as part of how the STL works. Secretly if the STL accept it then Hezbollah lawyer will probably want to introduce other factors of Lebanese law which may let them off the hook ... So to speak ..
18 March 2012, 03:51
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Deciphering the above: STL is a bogus politically motivated scam court.
