The fate of four high-ranking Lebanese generals detained after being suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be determined Wednesday, local LBC TV reported Monday.
After three years and seven months of detention in Roumieh jail in east Beirut, the general prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Daniel Bellemare, handed over Monday his decision to the pretrial judge of STL Daniel Fransen, who will announce his final decision on whether the four generals would be released or not on Wednesday afternoon, the report said.
The STL was launched on March 1 in Hague to try suspects in the assassination of Hariri.
The four generals -- former head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan, security services director Jamil Sayyed, domestic security chief Ali Hajj and military intelligence chief Raymond Azar -- were arrested shortly after Hariri's assassination in a car bombing in Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005.
Lebanese Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar said Monday that the release of the four generals does not mean they are innocent, and keeping them in jail does not mean they were involved in Hariri's killing.
Source:Xinhua
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