Hezbollah member found guilty of Hariri assassination

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 2:19 p.m.

The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set up to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, has delivered its verdict. It's taken 15 years and has delivered one conviction, of a member of Hezbollah not present in court. Also in the programme: Are young Italians responsible for a rise in coronavirus cases? (Photo: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks to the media after a session of the United Nations-backed Specail Tribunal for Lebanon handing down a judgement in the case of four men being tried in absentia for the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed his father, former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri and 21 other people, in Leidschendam, Netherlands on 18 August 2020. Credit: Reuters/Piroschka Van De Wouw)