Two sentenced for collaboration

A military court has sentenced two people in absentia to 15 years in prison for contact and collaboration with “Israel” during its occupation.
The court also ordered the two men, Naji Mahmoud Honein and Hussein Ali Abbas, to pay a fine of LL2 million each.
The sentences were issued late Monday and posted on the court’s bulletin board Tuesday.
The court also sentenced Hatem Ratib Attieh to a two-year jail term and ordered him to pay a fine of LL400,000. A fourth man, Fouad Tanios Abou, was sentenced to a one-year jail term. Charges were dropped against four other men.
The defendants were the 121st batch of collaborators tried by the court since it began its work last June in the wake of “Israel’s” May 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon. Its verdicts cannot be appealed.

The Daily Star, 13-6-2001.