29-03-2024 01:32 PM Jerusalem Timing

Photos of STL Witnesses Appear Online, Al-Mustaqbal Website Disowns

Photos of STL Witnesses Appear Online, Al-Mustaqbal Website Disowns

The official webpage of Al-Mustaqbal newspaper published online information about the secret witnesses in the Special Tribunal of Lebanon.

Lebanon: STL secret witnessesThe official webpage of Al-Mustaqbal newspaper published online information about the secret witnesses in the Special Tribunal of Lebanon formed to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The information included the names of witnesses, their portraits and some details about them.

The information has been also published on some other websites, but updated with the name of Hani Hammoud, MP Saad Hariri’s adviser, captioned by “covered by the witness protection program in the international tribunal.”

Later on, Al-Mustaqbal daily denied it had managed to publish the names.

“The website has been hacked and the whole matter is beyond the control of those responsible,” it said in a statement.

To review the witnesses’ names click here