Prosecutors try to reverse acquittals in Hariri blast case at Lebanon Tribunal

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the grave of assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon seeking to overturn the acquittal of two men over the 2005 assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Monday there had been "fundamental errors" in the judgment.

They said judges of the lower chamber had not properly assessed circumstantial evidence in the case, which was based almost entirely on mobile phone records, when they acquitted Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi last year.