Name: REPORT: Samaha sentenced to 13 years of hard labor for plotting attacks
Uploaded: 2016-04-08T09:06:35+00:00
Description: A court sentenced on Friday former information minister Michel Samaha

A court sentenced on Friday former information minister Michel Samaha to 13 years of hard labor in prison after a retrial on charges of smuggling explosives and planning attacks.

He will serve 13 years in the al-Rihannieh jail with hard labor with his civil rights being stripped off.

Samaha was detained in August 2012 and sentenced to a shorter term last year.

He had been freed on bail in January pending the retrial.

REPORT: Samaha sentenced to 13 years of hard labor for plotting attacks

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