Lawyers for Hariri assassination suspect calls for acquittal
LEIDSCHENDAM - Lawyers for one of four alleged Hezbollah members accused of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri called Tuesday on judges at a UN-backed tribunal to acquit him, saying prosecutors have not presented enough evidence for a conviction.
"Even taken at its highest, the prosecution evidence is not sufficient" to convict Hussein Hassan Oneissi, his lawyer Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse told the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
None of the four suspects is in custody and the trial at a courtroom just outside The Hague, Netherlands, is progressing in their absence. The Feb. 14, 2005 truck bombing in Beirut killed Hariri and 21 others and injured more than 220 passers-by.
