Click here [3] for Order on Partially Lifting the Confidentiality of the Indictment (approximately 4 pages); click here [4] for redacted public Indictment (approximately 35 pages); click here [5] for press release (approximately 2 pages)

A Pre-Trial Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) has partially lifted the confidentiality on its July 2013 decision to confirm an indictment against Hassan Habib Merhi.  According to the press release, the confirmed indictment and an arrest warrant were transmitted to the Lebanese authorities so that they could search for Merhi, arrest him, and transfer him to STL custody.  Merhi is accused of being criminally responsible for the attack in Beirut that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.