The Daily Star - Hard labor sentences for PSP member’s murder - May 25, 2011

BEIRUT: Judge Berkan Saad charged five individuals involved, or accused of involvement in, the killing of a Progressive Socialist Party member in 2009 with various sentences, a judicial report said Tuesday.

Lutfi Zeineddine was killed and attempts were made on the lives of his son Chady Zeineddine and two other Lebanese on their way home from a rally in Beirut in 2009. Zeineddine, his son, Rafaat al-Sayegh and Najib Sabra had taken part in the Feb. 14 rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, despite the absence of an official delegation from the PSP. Judge Saad charged Hussein Abdallah and the Syrian national Fadi Ajeimeh each to 15 years of hard labor. The judge also transferred two other juvenile suspects accused of taking part in the crime to a juvenile court to face an exceptional trial. However, the court ordered both juveniles Wael Kenaan and Mohammad Zein to each pay LL150 million in compensation to the victim’s family.