Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his al-Mustaqbal Movement await the verdict of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the case of his father’s Feb. 2005 assassination.
The Movement “looks forward to the seventh of August to be a day of truth and justice for Lebanon and a day of punishment for the criminals,” Hariri’s parliamentary bloc said in a statement on Tuesday.
The ex-PM informed the bloc of the decision to postpone the third Mustaqbal Movement Congress over the coronavirus outbreak, and stressed that it will be held when conditions are ripe.
Hariri stated that the Congress will be held under the slogan of “justice for Lebanon”, and that conditions that compelled the delay do not contradict with Mustaqbal’s full commitment to justice in the case of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the verdict that the Tribunal will issue on August 7.
“We never lost hope in international justice and in the truth being revealed, after the Lebanese security and judicial apparatus failed, during the (Syrian) tutelage era,” the statement quoted Saad Hariri as saying.
“I do not want to anticipate the announcement of the verdict on August 7. National and moral responsibility imposes on me personally, on al-Mustaqbal Movement and the public of martyr Rafik Hariri, and on all the families afflicted by the series of assassinations, to await the verdict and build on it, he said.
“We in al-Mustaqbal Movement look forward to the seventh of August to be a day of truth and justice for Lebanon and a day of punishment for the criminals,” Hariri added.
Hariri called on his supporters to be patient and calm, and to act responsibly.
He also urged them to avoid clashes on social media before and after the verdict is issued.
He said: “From now until the seventh of August, I will be among you, and hopefully, we will have something else to say.”
