Lebanese Activist Jailed for 'Collaborating' with Israel
Lebanon's military prosecution on Monday sentenced an activist to three years in prison for "collaborating" with Israel and traveling to it, a judicial source said.
The National News Agency said Kinda al-Khatib was sentenced for allegedly visiting Israel, contacting Israeli agents and providing them with security information.
Lebanon is technically still at war with Israel and forbids its citizens from traveling there.
Al-Khatib was detained in June with her brother, who was later released. According to local media reports, she had visited Israel by crossing from Jordan.
Al-Khatib had been active on social media, where she harshly criticized Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizbullah and its ally President Michel Aoun.
Her family and activists have denounced her arrest as "political" because of her tweets against those in power.
Lebanese media and activists have drawn a parallel between Khatib's case and that of actor Ziad Itani, who was also accused of "collaborating" with Israel in 2017.
Itani was declared innocent and released several months later, and a high-ranking security officer was then charged with "fabricating" the case.
15 December 2020, 07:11
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Big John you are a Mossad member. saw you in the Shin Bet office in Tel Aviv.
15 December 2020, 09:37
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If you are Aoun or Al Rahi, no problem, you can chill on Tel Aviv beaches and come back safely to Lebanon.
15 December 2020, 10:22
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Politically motivated accusations by the strong president and his genius in law and of course the terror militia. This woman is innocent!
15 December 2020, 10:48
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Carlos Ghosn evades Japanese justice, escapes to Lebanon, and there is an international warrant for his arrest. He is pictured shaking hands with the Israeli president during a visit to Israel and yet the justice system of the strong presidency does not act or arrest him.
If you read this woman's story, you will conclude she was set up just like Ziad Itani was by the infamous and surgically enhanced suzan al hajj. Kinda Al Khatib informed the ISF and talked to Colonel Joseph Musallam (Aouni) of the ISF Information Branch about being approached by an Israeli journalist on Facebook. He shrugged it off. Now she became a spy. She is an anti hezbollah activist and she is being punished for her stances against Aoun and Hezbollah.
Interior Minister Fahmi hit the nail on the head when he talked about 95% of judges!
16 December 2020, 03:33
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So what if she chatted with an Israeli on Twitter or even in person? What kind of biased police state Lebanon has become under michel aoun?
Wait when the Gulf will be full of co-owned Israeli-Emirati companies with Israeli employees sharing the same offices as Lebanese expatriates. What will this rotten justice system do?
