Judge Seeks Death Penalty for Arsal Municipal Chief in Deadly Army Assault
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A Military Examining Magistrate demanded on Tuesday the death penalty for 37 suspects, including the municipal chief of the northeastern town of Arsal, over the killing of two soldiers in February.
The request was made in the indictment issued by Judge Fadi Sawan.
The judge also issued search and investigation warrants against 16 unidentified suspects involved in the murder of Captain Pierre Bashaalani and Sergeant Ibrahim Zahraman.
Bashaalani and Zahraman were killed and several soldiers injured when Arsal gunmen ambushed their patrol on Feb. 1.
Sawan also issued arrest warrants against 53 people accused of murder, attempted-murder, use of violence against the army, and the theft of weapons and ammunition.
The charges include the possession of arms and explosives.
Last month, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged three people for killing soldiers at a checkpoint in the area of Wadi Hmeid in the outskirts of Arsal on May 28.
09 July 2013, 15:16
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Only retards and extremists believe in the death penalty.
It's too lenient of a sentence vs life in prison and no one should have the right to decide on a person's life or death.
Also, you're not allowed to agree with ANY JUDICIAL request, decision, sentence to be carried out and refuse judicial enquiries to be carried out against over 20 hezbollah members that are asked for questioning.
Either you abide by justice or you ignore it altogether. You cannot play both sides.
So either shut up about judicial issues or publicly call for HA to comply with justice and debate all you want.
And please avoid answering some irrelevant BS about Hariri or whatever M14 or corrupt justice and shoot yourself in the foot again ...
09 July 2013, 15:20
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you're the one answering irrelevant BS about about HA or whatever.
the case here concerns Arsal, stick to the topic.
09 July 2013, 15:52
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I'm not criticising the case or ruling or call for death penalty.
I'm criticising your DOUBLE STANDARDS by pointing out how you apply different logic to the same JUSTICE system depending on who the culprit is.
Either you BELIEVE in justice and comply with it or you don't and you shut up.
The irrelevant people over here are you Mowaten and FT. You contradict yourself more than Jumblat changes his mind and you get lost in your illogical reasoning.
09 July 2013, 18:53
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FT : do you speak english or need English to Farsi Google translate to understand ?
1- When justice is expressing itself against these terrorist : you applaud them and cannot wait for sentence to be carried out
2- When the same justice is calling for HA suspects : you accuse them of being corrupt and launch stupid accusation like false witnesses when they have not even shared their testimony with a court... They cannot be false witnesses without the case going to trial ...
This is double standard ...
10 July 2013, 09:23
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nop, and nasrala and his men for Samer Hanna murder and many others and for taking Lebanon hostage!
10 July 2013, 03:26
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Our State is efficient in prosecuting those enemies of the HA. It is true that Samaha has not been tried since almost a year, but there is a good reason for that. Samaha can not be tried without also indicting top Syrian military officials, and yes we can even wait until Bashar Assad himself is able to attend the and testify as most likely he is the one that issued the order. The long hand of justice is not long enough for the big fish, but with HA's help one day it will get there.
10 July 2013, 03:30
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bani, you should know better than to pose such a question. Those killed the two soldiers are also enemies of the glorious resistance and their crime has priority and their punishment must be swift, otherwise more of those cannibals will get emboldened enough to start killing resistance fighters and that is the ultimate crime...... this will lead to wars engulfing the whole region. So this swift punishment is not as much about the two soldiers but it is to protect the back of the glorious resistance.
