Report: Norman Farrell to be Next STL Prosecutor
Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Norman Farrell will be the next Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor, al-Arabiya reported on Sunday.
Diplomatic sources told the New York and United Nations Bureau Chief of al-Arabiya, Talal al-Haj, that only one name has been sent to Prime Minister Najib Miqati for the vacant position of the STL Prosecutor after Daniel Bellemare’s mandate comes to an end on March 1.
Farrell is a Canadian like Bellemare.
An Nahar daily on Saturday quoted a Western diplomatic source as saying that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently handed over to the Lebanese government the names of three possible replacements for Bellemare.
Appointing the STL Prosecutor is the responsibility of the U.N. chief alone.
The Lebanese premier is informed but the choice of a Prosecutor is the secretary general’s.
“Farrell was the Principal Legal Officer in the ICTY’s Office of the Prosecutor, a post he held from 2005. Previously, he was the Senior Appeals Counsel and Head of the Appeals Section in the Office of the Prosecutor for both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the ICTY,” said al-Arabiya.
The STL was set up by the U.N. Security Council in 2007 and has announced that it will put four Hizbullah members on trial even though they have not yet been detained.
The four have been charged for the Feb. 14, 2005 car bombing in Beirut that killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.
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