The defense attorney for former Lebanese security chief Jamil Sayyed, detained in the investigation into the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, called the case a "charade" on Sunday and announced that he was "suspending" his work. In an interview with The Daily Star, Akram Azouri said "The case is like a tennis match, where the referee is holding the tennis ball, and the partner I am playing with is invisible. My job has so far been to hold a racket in that match, to give the illusion that everything is being carried out properly and legally. I am walking out of the match until the ball is thrown back in and a real enquiry resumes its place."Azouri said that for the past eight months he has been "jobless" because "no one has come to question Sayyed since his arrest, which is highly irregular. "My job has turned political where I end up releasing statements in response to verbal attacks by politicians on my client, which is not really the job of a lawyer. I am not giving up on my client, but rather feel that this is the best way to defend him, by refusing to be part of a conspiracy," said Azouri.