Karam's 2-Year Jail Sentence Upheld, Civil Rights Restored
The Military Tribunal headed by Judge Alice Shabtini upheld on Tuesday retired General Fayez Karam’s sentence to two years in prison without stripping him of his civil rights.
Karam had been imprisoned on charges of collaborating with Israel.
On September 3, the permanent military court had sentenced Karam, 63, to three years in jail.
It reduced the sentence to two years with hard labor with his civil and political rights being stripped.
Karam, a senior member of the Free Patriotic Movement, was arrested by the Police Intelligence Bureau arrested in August 2010 on suspicion of spying for Israel.
Karam graduated from the military school in 1972 as lieutenant.
He held several leadership positions in the army, including head of the counter-terror and spying bureau.
He remained in his post until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and his imprisonment in Mazze for five months.
Karam quit the military after then army commander Michel Aoun was exiled to France in 1990.
He returned with him to Lebanon in 2005 when Syria withdrew its troops from the country, ending its 29-year hegemony.
More than 100 people have been arrested on suspicion of spying for the Israeli Mossad since April 2009, including members of the security forces and telecom employees.
Several have since been sentenced to death, including one found guilty of aiding Israel during its devastating 2006 war with Hizbullah.
Source: Naharnet
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