BEIRUT: First Military Investigative Magistrate Riad Abu Ghayda requested the death sentence against retired army Brig. Gen. Antoine Abu Jawdeh Monday on charges of spying for Israel, a judicial report said.
Judge Abu Ghayda demanded the death sentence for Abu Jawdeh, who was arrested August 2010 for “collaboration with the Israeli enemy,” the judicial report stated.
According to the report, Abu Jawdeh has been spying for Israel since 2006 and is also accused of meeting abroad with agents of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad to supply information on Hizbullah and the Lebanese Army in exchange for money.
Since April 2009 over 100 people have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel, including military personnel and telecommunications employees.
Five people have so far been handed the death sentence for espionage but none of the sentences have yet been carried out. The Lebanese Constitution states that death sentences must include the signatures of the president, the prime minister and the justice minister. In July, Lebanon’s Cabinet unanimously agreed that the best punishment for Israeli collaborators was the death penalty. President Michel Sleiman said he would sign death penalties against Israeli spies issued by the judiciary.
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