STL Victims Participation Unit Submits 73 Applications to Fransen
The Victims’ Participation Unit of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon has submitted to STL Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen “73 applications from individuals who claim to have suffered physical, material or mental harm as a result of the 14 February 2005 (bomb) attack” that killed ex-PM Rafik Hariri and 22 other people, the STL said in a statement on Friday.
“A decision on each application will be made in due course by the Pre-Trial Judge,” it noted.
This process will allow the victims who are granted the right to participate an opportunity to take part in the trial and to be represented by counsel, the court added.
It clarified that the transmission of the applications followed a review carried out by the VPU “as required by the Tribunal’s rules.”
Source: Naharnet
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