Appeals Chamber Rules Sayyed’s Appeal Admissible, Refers File Back to Fransen
The international tribunal’s Appeals Chamber ruled on Tuesday Jamil al-Sayyed’s latest appeal admissible and referred the case back to the Pre-Trial Judge for further consideration.
The former chief of the General Security Department, who was detained for four years in connection with the February 2005 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, has appealed Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen's decision to give him partial access to his case file.
The applicant has asked the Appeals Chamber to cancel the decision in that it denies the rights of the applicant in a general and absolute way to access three categories of documents.
He claims his detention between August 30, 2005, and April 30, 2009, was decided on the basis of libelous denunciations made during an inquiry into Hariri's killing.
On Tuesday, the Appeals Chamber declared the appeal “admissible” and referred the case back to the Pre-Trial Judge “with directions to ensure that the classifications” of the three categories of documents “are made appropriately and expeditiously in the light of this decision.”
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