Hizbullah member sentenced to life for Hariri murder
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands: An international court sentenced a fugitive Hizbullah member on Friday to five life jail terms for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri and 21 other people.
Salim Ayyash, 57, was found guilty in absentia of murder and terrorism on August 18 by the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon over the huge suicide bombing that killed the billionaire politician and injured 226 others.
Ayyash remains on the run, with Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Hizbullah movement, refusing to hand him over or to recognise the UN-backed court. "Mr Ayyash participated in an act of terrorism that caused mass murder," chief Judge David Re said as he announced the sentence.
"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 court has issued an international arrest warrant for Ayyash for the "extremely grave" crimes.
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