Hizbullah demanded on Saturday the release of four Lebanese generals who have been held without trial for years in connection with the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri. Their continued detention "is for political reasons ... given that they have not even been questioned in three years," said a statement from the Shiite movement. "That confirms the arbitrariness of their detention."
The statement calls on investigating judge Sakr Sakr to "take the right decision of freeing the four generals as quickly as possible and not give in to political pressures."
On Friday, two days before a UN tribunal into the assassination opens in The Hague, Sakr dismissed demands to release the generals for the second time this week. A similar request was rejected on Wednesday on the grounds that the authorities had not completed their investigation, a source close to the case told AFP.
