Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Monday he stood firm against Syrian President Bashar al-Assads "crimes", at an event marking the anniversary of his fathers assassination that he has blamed on Damascus.
Hariri, whose father Rafiq Hariri was killed along with 22 other people in a February 15, 2005 bomb blast on the Beirut seafront, was appointed prime minister in November for a second time, under an arrangement struck with the pro-Syrian Shiite group Hezbollah.