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Sources to LBCI: Former Minister Samaha's attorney filed release plea

05-02-2014 | 06:43

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Sources to LBCI: Former Minister Samaha's attorney filed release plea

Sources reported to LBCI on Wednesday that the attorney of former Minister Michel Samaha filed a request to the military court for his release, but the State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr rejected it.

Former Minister Michel Samaha was arrested on Thursday 9th of August by the Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch on suspicion of involvement in a plot to carry out terrorist attacks in Lebanon in collaboration with Syria.

He was charged by the government’s deputy commissioner at the Military Tribunal on 11th of August 2012, alongside Syrian National Security Bureau head Ali Mamlouk and a Syrian army officer identified as Brig. Gen. Adnan with plotting to assassinate political and religious figures in Lebanon and carrying out terrorist attacks.

An indictment was issued by Lebanon's Military Prosecutor Riad Abou Ghaida on Wednesday Feb. 20 2013, requesting a death sentence for Samaha and Mamlouk.

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