Military Court Presiding Judge Nizar Khalil has postponed to April 21st the trial of Free Patriotic Movement official Fayez Karam, New TV reported on Tuesday.
The report said that Khalil rejected Karam’s attorneys’ defense that the investigation conducted by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) Information Branch is not admissible as evidence.
Karam said that investigators extracted his confession by force, New TV’s report added.
Karam, a retired Lebanese army general, was arrested by the Information Branch in August on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.
FPM politicians have repeatedly said that the Information Branch is an illegitimate institution and that it violated the law in its investigation of Karam.
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