Residents beat released collaborator in Houla

Less than two week following the liberation of most of the Lebanese territories from the "Israeli" occupation, and less than a week after agent Mohammed Ayyoub Fares (from Houla) surrendered to the Lebanese judiciary, one of the judges "acted at his discretion" and released Fares.

The agent's return to Houla Monday morning outraged the residents as Fares had inflicted harm on many of them by informing against them to the occupation forces.

The residents stormed into the collaborator's house and beat him severely. He had to be taken to hospital for treatment.

Hizbullah had warned the authority against leniency in the trials of the collaborators and rushing to release them as though nothing had happened.

The party called on the state to implement justice literally and not to use "acting at one's discretion" or justifying with "old age, sickness" their release underlining that it does not want revenge acts in the villages as a result of the authority's "quasi-pardoning of some collaborators under different headings".

Manar TV, 5-6-2000.