REPORT: Ruling in Samaha’s case triggers protests across Lebanon

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REPORT: Ruling in Samaha’s case triggers protests across Lebanon
Residents of Saadnayel blocked on Friday the Saadnayel-Taalabaya highway to protest a military court ruling in the case of former Lebanese minister Michel Samaha.     
 
Rallies were also staged in the northern city of Tripoli after Friday prayers to denounce the ruling.         
 
The trial of former Information Minister Michel Samaha ended on Wednesday at the Military Court, and a verdict was issued sentencing him to four and a half years in prison, and stripping him of all civil rights.      
 
The verdict also stipulates that his years of detention would be counted from the day he was incarcerated, leaving him to serve the remaining 11 months in prison according to Samaha’s defense attorney.    
 
Prior to the issuance of the verdict, Associate Government Commissioner Judge Hani Helmi al-Hajjar read his remarks, whereby he stressed that the accused was found guilty of the crimes raised against him and included in the indictment.          
 
For his part, Samaha’s attorney Sakher al-Hashem stressed that his client was not aware of the explosives transported in his car, adding that he had no intention of committing terrorist acts, and that he had been framed.           
 
He stated that his client is not guilty.       
 
For his part, the former minister pleaded innocence in his last statement.       
 
Samaha, who had close ties with the Syrian regime, was arrested in August 2012 for plotting attacks in Lebanon along with two Syrian officials.         
 
His trial started in June 2013 but had been repeatedly postponed for failing to summon Ali Mamlouk and a Syrian colonel identified only by his first name, Adnan, the cases of whom were included in Samaha’s case.           
 
Last March, the tribunal decided to separate the trial of detainee Michel Samaha from that of Syrian security Chief General Ali Mamlouk.
 
 
To watch Edmond Sassine's report, please click on the VIDEO above
 

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