THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The trial of four men accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri began Thursday at The Hague, Netherlands, before a special tribunal.
Judge David Re, president of the trial chamber, read the names of the four defendants being tried in absentia and the charges against them as a model of downtown Beirut, where the explosion that killed Hariri and 21 others occurred, was on display in the courtroom, the (Beirut) Daily Star reported.