16 more Lebanese sentenced for collaboration with “Israel”…(6)

“ A Beirut military court handed down sentences Friday against 16 Lebanese who collaborated with “Israel” during its 22-year occupation of the south of the country, a court source said.

Four people were sentenced to between 18 months and three years in prison for working with “Israeli” intelligence services.

Another 12 were given between six months and one year in prison for joining the “Israel’s” proxy militia in the south during the occupation.

The court also found another five Lebanese guilty of collaboration but did not sentence them, either because they also worked with Lebanese forces or because their crimes were too old to be prosecuted.

The sentences bring to 2,290 the number of people judged since June 5, just two weeks after “Israel’s” withdrawal, when Lebanon began trying more than 2,500 Lebanese accused of collaboration.

Eleven people have been sentenced to death and three others to life in prison, all in absentia.

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6-       AFP, 26-1-2001.