University of Tehran Public Law Studies Quarterly 2423-8120 54 2 2024 06 21 Criminal Responsibility of Individuals in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Criminal Responsibility of Individuals in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon 1205 1228 97588 10.22059/jplsq.2022.333286.2927 FA Seyed Hossien Mousavi Far Assistant Professor of Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran 0009-0005-0406-9712 Abbas Sheikholeslami Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran 0000-0003-3975-6844 Keivan Eghbali Judiciary Research Institute, Tehran, Iran 0000-0003-3975-6844 Journal Article 2021 11 01 The Lebanese Special Court is a special tribunal established after 2005 assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri by Security Council with the aim of investigating the assassination and related assassinations and punishing their perpetrators. In this regard, although the statute of the court and its judicial procedure, have made great efforts to a kind of reconciliation between international criminal law and Lebanese domestic criminal law in the field of Criminal responsibility of Individuals. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the procedure of the mentioned court in a descriptive-analytical manner from the perspective of pursuing the criminal responsibility of individuals as well as the fight against the phenomenon of terrorism. The review of the court's practice in the process leading up to the August 18, 2020 verdict indicates that some major shortcomings remain in the institution's achievement of its goals. Recognizing the possibility of a trial in absentia and relying of The Lebanese Special Court on such trials is not only a threat to the human rights of these individuals, but also it seems that the court has not been very successful in providing a comprehensive definition of terrorism as well as in combating the phenomenon of impunity for terrorist acts. The Lebanese Special Court is a special tribunal established after 2005 assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri by Security Council with the aim of investigating the assassination and related assassinations and punishing their perpetrators. In this regard, although the statute of the court and its judicial procedure, have made great efforts to a kind of reconciliation between international criminal law and Lebanese domestic criminal law in the field of Criminal responsibility of Individuals. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the procedure of the mentioned court in a descriptive-analytical manner from the perspective of pursuing the criminal responsibility of individuals as well as the fight against the phenomenon of terrorism. The review of the court's practice in the process leading up to the August 18, 2020 verdict indicates that some major shortcomings remain in the institution's achievement of its goals. Recognizing the possibility of a trial in absentia and relying of The Lebanese Special Court on such trials is not only a threat to the human rights of these individuals, but also it seems that the court has not been very successful in providing a comprehensive definition of terrorism as well as in combating the phenomenon of impunity for terrorist acts. https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_97588_c4c2268a83e731672073f530bc0bc735.pdf