Verdict in Hariri’s killing on Aug 7

the hague — A UN-backed tribunal into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a huge suicide bombing 2005 will deliver its long-awaited verdict on August 7, the court announced on Friday.

Four suspects from Hezbollah are on trial over the murder of billionaire Hariri, who was killed on Valentine’s Day when the bomber detonated a van next to his convoy on the Beirut seafront. Another 21 people were killed and 226 injured in the assassination of Hariri.

The court said it “issued a scheduling order today for the public pronouncement of the judgment” in the case against the suspects, who are being tried in absentia after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah refused to hand them over. —