Judges and staff are seen at the United Nations-backed Lebanon Tribunal in the Netherlands on Friday, with prosecution and defense counsel connecting via video link due to Covid-19 measures. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) A Hezbollah member convicted of killing the former prime minister of Lebanon was sentenced to five life sentences on Friday.
Judges on a special United Nations tribunal cited deterrence for others and the gravity of the crime as justification for giving the maximum penalty to Salim Ayyash, who was not present in The Hague-based courtroom. He was convicted in absentia in August for his role in the 2005 bombing that killed Rafik Hariri and 21 others.
Lebanon: Rafic Hariri killer receives 5 life sentences
The flag outside the Lebanon Tribunal on August 18, 2020 in The Hague, Netherlands. [Pierre Crom/Getty Images] December 11, 2020 at 12:53 pm
The man who killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri has today been handed five concurrent life sentences for the crime.
Salim Jamil Ayyash, 57, was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia for the 2005 assassination of Hariri and the killing of 21 other people.
Chief Judge David Re told the court: Mr Ayyash participated in an act of terrorism that caused mass murder. In the circumstances, the trial chamber is satisfied that it should impose the maximum sentence for each of the five crimes of life imprisonment to be served concurrently.
The UN-endorsed Special Tribunal for Lebanon has sentenced in absentia Salim Ayyash, a Hezbollah member convicted of murdering former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, to five life imprisonment terms, according to the court.Earlier in August, the special tribunal in The Hague exonerated three ma ..
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