Telecom Employee Charged with Collaborating with Israel Released on Bail
An employee for a mobile phone service company was released on bail on Thursday after he was imprisoned on charges of collaborating with Israel, reported the National News Agency.
It said that Charbel Qazzi was released from jail after paying L.L.10 million in bail.
He was arrested in July 2010 and sentenced in December 2011 to seven years hard labor on charges of collaborating with the enemy.
He was charged with passing on information to Israeli spies that aided the Jewish state in its 2006 war against Hizbullah.
After the arrest of Qazzi, several other telecom sector employees were detained on charges of spying for Israel.
More than 100 people in Lebanon have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel since April 2009, including military personnel and telecoms employees.
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