A member of the militant group Hezbollah has been sentenced to life in prison for killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a car bomb attack in 2005. The tribunal has acquitted three others in the case. According to the judges of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Netherlands, Saleem Ayash played a key role in the 2005 car bombing.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a car bomb in 2005. Hariri was a prominent Lebanese Sunni politician who, before his death, had been urging Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. They have been there since the start of the civil war in 1976. Thousands of people protested after Hariri's death. Two weeks after Hariri's death, the government resigned, after which Syria sent troops to Lebanon. Call back from
After gathering evidence of the incident, the United Nations and Lebanon set up a special tribunal in 2007 to prosecute the four nominees in the high-profile case in their absence. The incident took place on mobile phone calls which were said to have been carried out after the assassination plot was hatched.
