Special Tribunal for Lebanon

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, also known as the Lebanon Tribunal or the Hariri Tribunal, was an international criminal tribunal of international character that applied Lebanese criminal law under United Nations authority, operating from 2009 until 2023. It was created to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the 14 February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri and twenty-one others, along with related attacks, and opened on 1 March 2009 after the UN Security Council implemented the underlying agreement through Resolution 1757 in May 2007. Based in Leidschendam in the Netherlands with a field office in Beirut, it was the first international tribunal to try terrorism as a distinct crime and was unusual in being able to conduct trials in absentia; its initial three-year mandate was repeatedly extended before it closed on 31 December 2023 amid funding difficulties tied to Lebanon's economic crisis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/