Hariri & the tribunal
29 events
- 14 February 2005Assassination of Rafik HaririRafik Hariri and MP Bassel Fleihan were killed by a car bomb in the Saint George–Ain el-Mreisseh area on 14 February.
- 15 February 2005Nasrallah the night after Hariri's assassination: "we must not rush to accuse"On 15 February 2005, on an Ashura night the day after Hariri's assassination, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called the…
- 14 March 200514 March: the "Cedar Revolution"The Christian parties of the Qornet Shehwan gathering took to the streets after the Future Movement and the Progressive…
- 30 August 2005Detlev Mehlis appointedThe appointment of Detlev Mehlis to investigate Hariri's assassination (a man close to Israel). Days earlier Sayyed…
- 12 October 2005Ghazi Kanaan found dead in his Damascus office: "suicide"
- 20 October 2005First Mehlis report: the four generals and the "false witnesses"On 20 October 2005 Detlev Mehlis presented his first report to the Security Council, accusing Syrian and Lebanese…
- 25 November 2005Ghajar martyrs speech: "Who are you?"On 25 November 2005, at the Sayyed al-Shuhada complex in Rweiss during the honouring of the three martyrs of the Ghajar…
- 30 December 2005Khaddam defects: Bashar threatened HaririAfter resigning as vice-president at the Baath congress in June 2005, Abdel Halim Khaddam told al-Arabiya from Paris on…
- 14 February 2007Jumblatt's 14 February 2007 speech: "tyrant of Damascus, an ape nature never knew"On 14 February 2007, on the second anniversary of Hariri's assassination, before a crowd in Martyrs' Square beside the…
- 30 May 2007The international tribunalOn 30 May 2007 the Security Council adopted Resolution 1757 under Chapter VII, creating the Special Tribunal for…
- 13 June 2007Assassination of Walid EidoOn 13 June 2007 the deputy Walid Eido (Future Movement) and his son were assassinated by a car bomb at the Manara in…
- 14 February 2008Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war"
- 29 April 2009Release of the four generals
- 9 November 2009Saad Hariri's governmentOn 9 November 2009 Saad Hariri formed a national unity government five months after his designation, following 14…
- 22 July 2010The tribunal crisisAfter leaks about its intention to issue an indictment against Hezbollah instead of Syria, on 22 July 2010 Sayyed…
- 30 July 2010The Baabda tripartite summit: Abdullah, Assad and Sleiman
- 9 August 2010Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conferenceOn 9 August 2010 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah presented at a press conference evidence of Israel's involvement in Hariri's…
- 6 September 2010Hariri retracts the accusation against SyriaOn 6 September 2010 Saad Hariri said in an interview with "Asharq al-Awsat" that accusing Syria of his father's…
- October 2010The false-witnesses crisis
- 12 January 2011Hariri's government brought downThe withdrawal of the Shia ministers from the government and its fall during Saad Hariri's visit to the White House;…
- 21 January 2011Nasrallah meets Jumblatt: the PSP tips the balance to MikatiOn 21 January 2011, nine days after the fall of Hariri's government, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met Walid Jumblatt in the…
- 25 January 2011The Future Movement objects
- 30 June 2011STL indictment issuedOn 30 June 2011 the Special Tribunal for Lebanon delivered the indictment and arrest warrants against four Hezbollah…
- 2 July 2011Nasrallah's reply to the indictmentOn 2 July 2011 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment issued against four "resistance brothers with an…
- 30 November 2011Mikati funds the tribunal outside the budgetOn 30 November 2011 Najib Mikati transferred Lebanon's share of the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (about…
- 18 December 2016Saad Hariri's governmentOn 18 December 2016 Saad Hariri formed a 30-minister national unity government after Aoun's election under the…
- 4 November 2017Saad Hariri held in Saudi ArabiaOn 4 November 2017 Saad Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh on a Saudi channel in a speech attacking Iran and…
- 24 May 2018Saad Hariri designated againOn 24 May 2018 Saad Hariri was designated to form the government after the elections, but the dispute over the…
- 29 October 2019Resignation of Saad Hariri's governmentOn 29 October 2019 Saad Hariri announced his government's resignation under pressure from the street after 13 days of…