Lebanon tribunal to resume trial in Hariri case

The appeals chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Thursday confirmed 18 June as the date for the resumption of trial in the case of the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
The decision follows an appeals filed by the lawyer of one of the accused, Hasan Habi Merhi, who had requested to postpone the trial until an expert had reviewed the prosecution's evidence and prepared a report, noted an STL prss release at the Hague.
The appeals chamber denied three of the four grounds of appeal raised by counsel for Merhi but it upheld, in part, one of the complaints.
A pre-trial conference is scheduled for 16 June and the trial will resume on 18 June. it added.
The STL has indicted five members of the Lebanese Hizbollah in connection with the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 21 others in a car bomb blast in Beirut in February 2005