STL: Judicial Procedures Not Bound by Timeframes, Mirza: I Haven’t Received Any Document

Future News television on Monday quoted the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon as saying that “judicial procedures are not bound by timeframes and only these procedures can define what to be published and when.”

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza, who paid a sudden visit to the Grand Serail on Monday, denied to Future News that he had received any document from the STL. “There is no decisive information on the release date of the indictment,” Mirza told the TV network.

Earlier on Monday, the Central News Agency quoted a judicial source as saying that the recent summoning of STL’s Lebanese judges to The Hague, where the court is based, had nothing to do with the indictment’s release date.

The judges traveled to The Hague, the source added, to attend a session for the STL Appeals Chamber that will look into an appeal filed by Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed against a ruling by Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen to give him partial access to his case file.

The judicial source, however, did not rule out the possibility that the indictment might be released soon, noting that the session on Sayyed’s appeal “requires the participation of the Lebanese judges.”

Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa has recently quoted sources as saying that “Judges Afif Shamseddine, Walid Akoum, Micheline Braidi and Ralph Riachi” had been summoned to The Hague.