A UN-backed tribunal will on Friday sentence a Hezbollah member convicted of the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafic Hariri, with prosecutors demanding a life term.

UN-backed court to sentence killer of Lebanon's Hariri

A UN-backed tribunal on Tuesday found a member of the Hezbollah Shiite movement guilty over the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri but cleared three other suspects after a years-long trial.

UN tribunal convicts Hezbollah defendant in Hariri assassination case

Former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri was travelling in a motorcade on February 14, 2005 when a bomb concealed in a van near Beirut’s St George Hotel exploded.

UN court finds no evidence against Hezbollah, Syria in Hariri's assassination