The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

Search This Blog

January 3, 2011

iloubnan - Lebanon officer could face death for spying - January 3, 2011

By AFP

BEIRUT - A military judge on Monday called for the death sentence against a retired army brigadier general accused of spying for Israel, a judicial source said.

Judge Riad Abu Ghida said Antoine Abu Jawudeh, who was arrested last August, should face the death sentence for "collaboration with the Israeli enemy," the source told AFP.


The retired officer is accused of having spying for Israel since 2006 and of having met abroad with agents of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad to supply information on Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and the army in exchange for money.


If the judge finds that his collaboration resulted in a death, Abu Jawudeh can be condemned to death.


More than 100 people in Lebanon have been arrested on suspicion of espionage for Israel since April 2009, including army personnel and telecoms employees. Lebanon has complained to the United Nations over the alleged spy networks.


Five people have so far been condemned to death for espionage but none of the sentences has been carried out.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Archives